The Orange County Chapter of the Alzheimers Association will give UCI professor Matthew Inlay $150,000 over three years for research critical to developing more-effective strategies for understanding and treating the disease, the association said.

The local chapter of the Chicago-based national association is in Irvine; a separate Alzheimers organization not affiliated with either also has an OC presence.

The national Alzheimers Association is the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimers research in the world, having awarded more than $385 million for more than 2,500 scientific investigations, according to the organization.

The research program is part of a global grant effort by the national group.

Alzheimers is the fifth leading cause of death in California and about 89,000 people in OC over age 65 will have the disease by 2030, the association said.

Inlay is an assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at University of California-Irvine.

He has degrees in molecular cell biology and biology from two UC System universities and did post-doctoral work at Stanford University, focusing on stem cell biology and development of the blood system.

He joined the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center as an assistant professor in 2013

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