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: Oscar Harari
Project Title: Mendelian randomization for unbiased biomarker discovery for AD and other complex traits
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1727
Aim 1: To identify common and rare genetic variants and pathways associated with protein levels in plasma, CSF and brain tissue
Aim 2: To determine whether the variants associated with plasma, CSF and brain protein levels are also associated with AD or other complex traits
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Investigator: Sally Temple/Celeste Karch
Project Title: iPSC Modeling of AD Using Progerin
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1720
Aim 1: Is prelamin A expression and processing perturbed in AD brains?
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Investigator: Fujirebio Diagnostics Inc
Project Title: Fujirebio ADRC Sample Request
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1721
Aim 1: to establish a Lumipulse G β-Amyloid 1-42 assay cutoff for distinguishing AD vs. HC in an autopsy confirmed LOAD population with appropriate clinical data.
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Investigator: Chihiro Sato
Project Title: Quantitative analyses of tau phosphorylation and isoforms in Brain, CSF, and cell culture models
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1722
Aim 1: To establish a comprehensive, quantitative profile of tau in human brain and CSF in AD and controls
Aim 2: To validate novel CSF tau phosphorylation ratios as new biomarkers of AD
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Investigator: Kevin Yarasheski
Project Title: Analytical validation & confirmation of a novel blood test for brain amyloidosis
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1723
Aim 1: Conduct the analytical validation of a novel, quantitative mass spectrometry-based plasma A� isoform assay.
Aim 2: Confirm the ability of this novel assay to distinguish between people with/without brain amyloidosis.
Aim 3: Calculate the assay accuracy (ROC AUC) and threshold plasma A�42/A�40 ratio that distinguishes between brain amyloid positive vs negative.
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Investigator: Dwight German
Project Title: Pesticide exposure and Alzheimer’s disease
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T0912-A
Aim 1: Validate DDE levels in tissue samples from samples previously provided.
Aim 2: Determine whether DDE brain levels are the same in different brain regions
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Investigator: Chihiro Sato
Project Title: Quantitative analysis of tau phosphorylation and isoforms in Brain, CSF, and cell culture models
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1722-A
Aim 1: The goal of this pilot experiment is to test the hypothesis that there are no brain regional differences in the phosphorylation profile of soluble tau in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain.
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Investigator: Tammie Benzinger
Project Title: Association between MRI-based neuroinflammation markers and CSF biomarkers of inflammation
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1724
Aim 1: To improve and extend the ADRC�s neuroinflammation imaging and biomarker dataset
Aim 2: Validate a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method, diffusion based spectrum imaging (DBSI), as a biomarker of neuroinflammation in AD
Aim 3: Examine the relationship of DBSI cell signal to neuroinflammation-related CSF biomarkers
Aim 4: Determine the spatial distribution of DBSI which relates best to CSF neuroinflammation biomarkers
Investigator: Amir Levine
Project Title: Identifying non-invasive predictive markers of Alzheimer’s Disease
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1725
Aim 1: To identify non-invasive molecular markers from frozen EDTA plasma that distinguish subjects with MCI only from those with MCI who convert to AD
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Investigator: Dominique Campion
Project Title: Investigate of the pathophysiological mechanisms driven by the MAPT duplication
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Request ID: T1726
Aim 1: Identification of novel MAPT duplication carriers: targeted screening of the MAPT gene duplication by QMPSF
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