Search Existing Data Requests

The Knight ADRC has supported many investigators at Washington University and at other institutions over the years. We wish to avoid the situation where two investigators study the same research question to avoid duplication of effort and potential conflict. To determine if your topic has already been studied with our resources, please search our database. If you find that your topic or a related topic has been submitted, you may wish to contact the investigator to inquire about their findings to determine how you might proceed. You may wish to collaborate or modify your request to avoid overlap. The results below reflect requests made since online requests have been accepted. As such, not all fields will have data as certain information, such as aims, were not collected until recently. If an entry has been assigned an ID number (e.g. T1004), the full request has been submitted and is either approved, disapproved or in process. If an entry has no ID number, then it represents a submission that has not yet been reviewed. Search terms are applied across an entire requests application including variables not displayed below. A more specific, detailed search may yield better results depending upon your needs.


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Investigator: Kaanan Shah

Project Title: Predicting phenotypes in Alzheimer’s Disease using machine learning-enabled polygenic risk models

Date: [153]

Request ID: D2005

Aim 1: Optimize AmyloidGB for predicting amyloid beta and validate in an external post-mortem cohort

Aim 2: Optimize and validate assays for predicting AD co-morbidities

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Investigator: Bruna Bellaver

Project Title: Meta-analysis on glial biomarkers for AD

Date: [153]

Request ID: D2004

Aim 1: Summarize the evidence for the diagnostic value of glial biomarkers in AD through a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Investigator: Prof. Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius

Project Title: Modeling Predictive Therapeutic Interventions with Scientific Machine Learning

Date: [153]

Request ID: D2003

Aim 1: Paired intimitely with prior knowledge established from scientific literature curated by researchers, the data will be used to fit remaining unknowns via deep learning (neural networks).

Aim 2: The final model will be used to attempt to predict the effect of certain interventions, rankring their capacity to address protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Investigator: John C. Morris

Project Title: Knight ADRC Genetics and High Throughput -Omics Core

Date: [153]

Request ID: D2002

Aim 1: Obtain pedigree and MMSE data for spouse control participants.

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Investigator: Rajendra Apte

Project Title: Neurofilament Light Chain (NfL) as a Biomarker for Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma

Date: [153]

Request ID: D2001

Aim 1: To determine whether there is an association between serum or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) NfL and glaucoma in the Memory & Aging Project (MAP) cohort

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Investigator: Ze Wang

Project Title: brain entropy mapping in aging and early AD

Date: [153]

Request ID: D1918

Aim 1: To find brain entropy difference between normal aging and early AD

Aim 2: To use brain entropy to assess AD progression

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Investigator: Chengjie Xiong

Project Title: Statistical Modeling of Aging and Risk of Transition: Update

Date: [153]

Request ID: D1917

Aim 1: Update and extensively revise the existing SMART project database with additional participant data; obtain and integrate linked Medicare claims data.

Aim 2: Investigate the relationship of HTN, T2DM, and multimorbidity in advanced old age with AD and non-AD neuropathologies

Aim 3: Investigate the relationship of HTN and T2DM in advanced old age with cognitive states including subjective memory complaints, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia

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Investigator: Aristeidis Sotiras

Project Title: Machine learning to quantify spatial patterns of neuroimaging biomarkers

Date: [153]

Request ID: D1916

Aim 1: Quantify patterns of structural covariance at the individual level and investigate their relationship with neuropsych performance measures, clinical, and laboratory values

Aim 2: Quantify patterns of coordinated amyloid deposition at the individual level and investigate their relationship with neuropsych performance measures, clinical, and laboratory values

Aim 3: Quantify patterns of coordinated tau deposition at the individual level and investigate their relationship with neuropsych performance measures, clinical, and laboratory values

Aim 4: Quantify patterns of coordinated dti metric covariation at the individual level and investigate their relationship with neuropsych performance measures, clinical, and laboratory values


Investigator: John Morris

Project Title: Hierarchical Clustering of AD Biomarkers

Date: [153]

Request ID: D1915

Aim 1: Examine clustering of ADRC biomarkers

Aim 2: Compare clustering as a function of disease stage

Aim 3: Comparing clustering to that seen in ADAD

Aim 4: Generate interactive GUI to plot biomarkers against one another


Investigator: Sheng Luo, PhD

Project Title: Integrative modeling and dynamic prediction of Alzheimer�s disease

Date: [153]

Request ID: D1914

Aim 1: To develop a novel integrative modeling framework for clinical studies of AD that collect longitudinal clinical data.

Aim 2: To generalize the integrative modeling framework for the joint analysis of longitudinal clinical data and high-dimensional MRI data.

Aim 3: To advance the integrative modeling framework to incorporate relevant genetic markers from genome-wide association studies.

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