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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: Rawan Tarawneh/Carlos Cruchaga

Project Title: Endothelial Markers in AD

Date: September 17, 2023

Request ID: T2311

Aim 1: Examine diagnostic and prognostic value of endothelial injury markers across different stages of AD

Aim 2: Evaluate relationship of endothelial injury to fluid and imaging markers of AD pathology and neurodegeneration

Aim 3: Characterize the contribution of endothelial injury to cognitive decline in preclinical and early symptomatic AD

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Investigator: gregory wu

Project Title: MOG antibodies in neurodegenerative diseases

Date: July 19, 2023

Request ID: T2310

Aim 1: Determine the prevalence and titer of circulating MOG antibodies in patients with AD

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Investigator: Carlos Cruchaga

Project Title: Large scale gene discovery for neurological traits

Date: July 10, 2023

Request ID: T2309

Aim 1: To generate WES for all the Knight-ADRC samples

Aim 2: To identify variants and genes associated with AD and ADRD

Aim 3: To determine the genetic overlap between AD, PD and other neurological traits

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Investigator: David Holtzman

Project Title: Evaluating the ability of gut microbiota to promote neuroinflammation and tau pathology

Date: June 8, 2023

Request ID: T2308

Aim 1: Determine how the human AD microbiome impacts tau pathology, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration in a germ-free model of tau-mediated neurodegeneration

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Investigator: Day

Project Title: Biomarkers and Rates of Progression in Dementia (Bio-RaPID)

Date: June 2, 2023

Request ID: T2307

Aim 1: Define the “cellular contributors” to RPD, addressing the key question of what makes patients vulnerable to rapidly progressive dementia

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Investigator: Qing Wang

Project Title: Association of CSF sTREM2 and plasma GFAP with an MRI measure of neuroinflammation

Date: April 19, 2023

Request ID: T2306

Aim 1: Compare DBSI neuroinflammation index to in vivo CSF and plasma inflammation biomarkers (sTREM2 and GFAP) in the Knight ADRC cohorts

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Investigator: Andrew Kraft / Evan Macosko

Project Title: Cellular mechanics of white matter disease

Date: April 15, 2023

Request ID: T2304

Aim 1: Determine spatial heterogeneity in healthy WM cell type composition and gene expression.

Aim 2: Identify the selective cellular vulnerabilities that define cerebral small vessel disease- and Alzheimer disease-related WMD

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Investigator: Jonathan Kipnis

Project Title: Continuous perivascular space allows brain macromolecules efflux to the dura mater

Date: April 15, 2023

Request ID: T2305

Aim 1: Define arteriovenous overlaps in the human leptomeninges.

Aim 2: Determine the ultrastructure of arteriovenous overlaps of non-dementia and Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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Investigator: Randall Bateman

Project Title: Evaluation of peripheral apoE protein levels as a function of CNS amyloidosis development in a Knight ADRC cohort.

Date: April 13, 2023

Request ID: T2303

Aim 1: Assess the timing of changes in peripheral apoE protein levels as a function of CNS amyloidosis development.

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Investigator: Hongyu An

Project Title: Neuroinflammation in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease using PET/MR Imaging

Date: March 14, 2023

Request ID: T2302

Aim 1: Determine if S1PR1 expression increases and colocalizes with microglia and astrocytes in post-mortem brain specimens from deceased patients with underlying CSVD.

Aim 2: Determine if neuroinflammation measured by 11C-CS1P1 uptake is independently associated with CSVD structural endpoints using in vivo PET/MR imaging.

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