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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: Prof. Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius

Project Title: Modeling Predictive Therapeutic Interventions with Scientific Machine Learning

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

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: Bruna Bellaver

Project Title: Meta-analysis on glial biomarkers for AD

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

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: Nure Alom Nobel

Project Title: Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Using Deep Learning.

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2016

Aim 1: How Alzheimer’s Disease affects the human brain and what changes are made in the brain.

Aim 2: We can know whether a patient has AD or not.

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Investigator: Jorge J Llibre-Guerra

Project Title: Proposal for comparison between Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease and sporadic early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2015

Aim 1: To compare clinical presentation, neuropsychological performance and cognitive decline rate between DIAD and sporadic EOAD.

Aim 2: To examine in vivo the regional distribution of tau, amyloid-β, brain glucose metabolism, and structural atrophy, as well as their relationships, in DIAD and sporadic EOAD.

Aim 3: To compare CSF biomarkers levels and rate of change in DIAD and sporadic EOAD.

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Investigator: Abhinav Jha

Project Title: Quantitative brain SPECT to measure severity of Parkinson’s disease

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2010

Aim 1: Develop and validate a new transmission-less attenuation compensation method for brain SPECT

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Investigator: Alison Goate

Project Title: Age extremes x APOE genotype sampling for genetic discovery in Alzheimer�s disease

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2009

Aim 1: Use multi-ethnic sequencing data from AD cases and cognitively normal controls to identify variants, genes, and genesets that protect against or accelerate disease

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Investigator: Jin-Tai Yu

Project Title: Genome-wide association study of brain amyloid and tau deposition

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2008

Aim 1: We aimed to do GWAS about different biomarkers in AD and other dementia disease, in order to find more meaningful SNPs

Aim 2: We aimed to explore the gene and protein undermine the SNPs about AD and other demential disease, especially about the amyloid and tau

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Investigator: Hongyu An

Project Title: PET/MR attenuation correction

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2007

Aim 1: To develop a deep learning based attenuation correct method for PET/MR imaging

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Investigator: Gagan S. Wig

Project Title: Examination of how changes in brain structure relates to changes in functional brain networks in adult individuals

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

Request ID: D2006

Aim 1: examining whether increasing age is associated with changes in functional brain networks within individuals

Aim 2: determining whether an individual�s neuroanatomical changes relate to their functional brain network changes

Aim 3: determining whether age-associated cognitive changes can be explained by the joint influence of changes in brain anatomy and functional brain network organization

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Investigator: Kaanan Shah

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

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm

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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