PEORIA — Alzheimer's and dementia research has gotten a big funding boost in the last few years, and some of that money has come to Peoria. Since 2015, Dr. Ken-ichiro Fukuchi's research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria has been awarded more than $2.6 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. Fukuchi has been researching Alzheimer's disease for most of his career. He's been at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria since 2005, and currently runs a lab where he and two researchers are working to better understand what causes the debilitating disease...
