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In order to avoid the situation where two investigators study the same research question, please search our database to determine if your topic has already been studied. If you find that your topic or a related topic has already been submitted, you may wish to contact the investigator to inquire about his/her 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 # (e.g. DIAN-T1004), the full request has been submitted and is either approved, disapproved or in process.

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Investigator:

Carlos Cruchaga

Title:

Functional characterization of brain circular RNAs in Alzheimer disease using induced pluripotent stem cell models

Date of Request:

04/04/2023

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2304

Aim 1:

To analyze the role of circHOMER1 in AD-related molecular phenotypes using cellular models

Investigator:

Eain Murphy (David Butler, Co-Invesitigator)

Title:

Alzheimer’s Disease associated pathology induced by neurotropic viral infection.

Date of Request:

03/03/2023

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN- T2303

Aim 1:

Establish biomarkers and activity of SU110 and SU134 in iPSC-derived models of familial AD.

Aim 2:

Do herpesvirus infections of neurons and glial cells produce neurodegenerative changes similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s Disease?

Aim 3:

Assess the efficacy of anti-tau intrabodies to lower AD pathology in familial iPSC derived neurons with APP V717I iPSC mutation

Investigator:

Cruchaga

Title:

Identification of mutation-specific networks: deep molecular profiling

Date of Request:

02/13/2023

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2302

Aim 1:

Identification and Characterization of Cell-Specific Transposable Elements Implicated on Alzheimer Disease and Healthy Aging

Aim 2:

To generate neuron and microglia specific ATAC-seq, CAGE-seq, DNA methylation and long-reads RNA-seq

Investigator:

Randall Bateman

Title:

DIAN-TU-001 Gantenerumab Open Label Extension Study

Date of Request:

01/27/2023

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2301

Aim 1:

The primary objective of the DIAN-TU-001 Gant OLE (3 years study duration) is to determine if continued treatment with Gant at a target dose of 1500 mg (subcutaneous administration, every 2 weeks) can result in continued or complete removal of brain amyloid plaque using cerebral amyloid imaging by PiB PET.

Aim 2:

The key secondary objective of the OLE is to evaluate the efficacy of Gant in reducing disease progression and will be assessed for the following key secondary efficacy outcome measures, such as CSF and plasma biomarkers.

Investigator:

Nikolaos Robakis

Title:

Effects of PS1 FAD mutants on brain angiogenesis.

Date of Request:

10/17/2022

Status:

not approved

ID:

DIAN-T2209

Aim 1:

Examine whether VEGFR2 dimerization, VEGFR2/CTF1 peptide, VEGFR2 complexes, VE-cadherin angiogenic complexes and levels of VEGF ligand differ in human FAD brains compared to control brains.

Investigator:

Ralph A. Nixon

Title:

PSEN FAD mutation effects on autophagy-lysosomal pathway related gene regulation

Date of Request:

09/12/2022

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2208

Aim 1:

Transcriptomic analysis of PSEN1 FAD mutations

Aim 2:

Transcriptomic analysis of PSEN2 FAD mutations

Investigator:

Henderson

Title:

Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterAdmin Supp: Developing iPSC modelsfor AD and PD

Date of Request:

09/02/2022

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2207

Aim 1:

AD/ADRD phenotypic characterization of iPSC neurons and microglia. Aim 2.1: We will differentiate and characterize cell lines into cortical neurons and microglia using established and validated protocols. Aim 2.2: We will characterize cell cultures and media supernatant for established AD biomarkers, including total tau, phosphorylated tau (Thr181), A1-40, and A1-42, neurofilament light (NfL), alpha-synuclein, cytokines and chemokines, immune profiling with CYTOF, proteomics, and comparative analyses to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers from the same donor.

Investigator:

Pharma partner

Title:

Comprehensive analyses of the soluble microtubule binding region (MTBR) in Alzheimer disease progression

Date of Request:

08/17/2022

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2206

Aim 1:

To test the performance of a pharma partner's antibody to identify unique soluble tau MTBR epitopes

Investigator:

Tammie Benzinger

Title:

Quantification of Neuroinflammation in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease Using Small-block Brain Specimen imaged by Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging (DBSI)

Date of Request:

08/16/2022

Status:

withdrawn

ID:

DIAN-T2205

Aim 1:

to assess the value of DBSI for the study of ADAD by comparing post-mortem MRI signals with histologic data

Investigator:

Patrick Oeckl

Title:

Investigation of plasma Beta-Synuclein levels in asymptomatic and symptomatic autosomal dominant Alzheimer´s disease

Date of Request:

06/20/2022

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T2204

Aim 1:

To investigate if blood levels of the synaptic marker Beta-Synuclein are already elevated in asymptomatic ADAD

Aim 2:

To estimate a time course of blood Beta-Synuclein changes in ADAD based on EYO and comparison with other blood/CSF biomarkers

Aim 3:

Relationship of blood Beta-Synuclein levels in ADAD with other fluid and imaging biomarkers, brain atrophy and cognitive impairment