The USF-UM study was funded by the NIH-designated Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the State of Florida.

Presumably these government agencies have records of the grant proposals and funding criteria.

I would also guess that this experiment will be independently valided by other research groups. That may have happened already to some degree. You could find out by examining the manuscript once it comes out. I note with approval that this news aggregator has thoughtfully provided complete bibliographic information.