Search Existing Tissue 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: Laura Ibanez

Project Title: Plasma cell-free RNA as non-invasive Biomarker for Neurodegeneration

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2007

Aim 1: Develop a predictive model for Alzheimer Disease using RNA species free in Plasma

Aim 2: Replicate the predictive model in an independent sample of presymptomatic individuals

Aim 3: Test if the predictive model is agnostic to ethnic background

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Investigator: Russell Swerdlow

Project Title: CSF biomarker characterization in aging and AD

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2008

Aim 1: Aim 1. Show feasibility to measure cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) A/T/N biomarkers in cognitively healthy older adults and individuals with AD.

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Investigator: David Holtzman

Project Title: Investigating the role of APOE in the progression of tau pathology in Alzheimer Disease

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2013

Aim 1: Test whether astrocyte or microglia-derived APOE influences NP-tau seeding

Aim 2: Test whether the APOE Christchurch variant influences NP-tau seeding

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Investigator: Xiaoying Chen

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Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2012

Aim 1: To assess whether T-cell populations are elevated in AD brain compared to non-AD control

Aim 2: To characterize the functional interaction between T-cells and innate immune cells in AD and control brains

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Investigator: Gilbert Gallardo

Project Title: Targeting Reactive Astrocytes for Therapeutic Intervention of Alzheimer’s Disease

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T1920-A

Aim 1: The purpose of this tissue request if to address reviewers comments and evaluate the astrocytic �2-Na/K ATPase protein levels in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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Investigator: Benjamin Wolozin/Hu Li

Project Title: Interactions of Tau with RNA metabolism

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2011

Aim 1: Compare signaling cascades induced by oligomeric tau and fibrillar tau

Aim 2: Determine how interaction of tau with m6A RNA varies with disease stage and type

Aim 3: Determine how m6A RNA transcripts vary with disease stage and type

Aim 4: Determine protein complexes associated with m6A RNA


Investigator: Chihiro Sato, Randall Bateman

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-C

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.

Aim 2: To test if there is difference in MTBR-tau in AD brain

Aim 3: To test if there is a correlation between local amyloid and p-tau in the brain

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Investigator: Marco Colonna

Project Title: MENINGEAL B CELLS IN AGING AND ALZHEIMER�S DISEASE

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2010

Aim 1: TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT MENINGEAL B CELLS ORIGINATE FROM THE CALVARIAL BONE MARROW.

Aim 2: TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE DURA MENINGES B CELLS CLONALLY EXPAND DURING AGING AND BECOME AUTOREACTIVE ABC.

Aim 3: PROFILING THE MOLECULAR LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN DURA BY SINGLE-NUCLEI RNASEQ.

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Investigator: Harari, Cruchaga and Karch

Project Title: A molecular and cellular atlas of Alzheimer�s Disease and Neuropath-free brains

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2009

Aim 1: To identify glial- and neuronal-specific events that lead to AD by generating single-nuclei data for AD and neuropath-free brains

Aim 2: To perform cell-type specific differential expression analyses

Aim 3: To identify the cell-type gene co-expression and co-regulated networks disrupted by AD

Aim 4: To identify cell-type expression quantitative traits locus (Ct-eQTL) by integrating single-nuclei data with GWAS and whole genome/exome sequencing


Investigator: Erin H. Norris

Project Title: Investigation of a prothrombotic state in AD patient plasma: Monitoring plasma contact system activation in AD pathophysiology

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T1306-B

Aim 1: Analysis of plasma contact system activation from large cohort of age- and sex-matched individuals diagnosed as non-demented (ND) or AD.

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