Search DIAN Tissue Requests

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:

Oscar Harari

Title:

Brain DNA methylation in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s disease

Date of Request:

10/29/2019

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T1914

Aim 1:

Aim 1: To identify Differentially Methylated Loci (DML) in ADAD and sporadic AD and neuropath-free controls

Aim 2:

Aim 2. To identify genetic loci modulating DML, and their downstream impact in brain transcriptomic/proteomic profiles.

Aim 3:

Aim 3. To evaluate the causal relationship between DML and AD pathogenesis.

Investigator:

Randall Bateman

Title:

Fluid NfL levels to be used as control and run-in data for the DIAN TU

Date of Request:

10/18/2019

Status:

withdrawn

ID:

DIAN-T1913

Aim 1:

To measure NfL levels in CSF and matched plasma smaples for use as control and run-in data in the DIAN TU

Investigator:

Carlos Cruchaga

Title:

Genomic-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

Date of Request:

10/17/2019

Status:

withdrawn

ID:

DIAN-T1912

Aim 1:

Aim 1: To construct prediction models for AD using cell-free nucleic species.

Aim 2:

Aim 2: To create novel prediction models using circular RNAs as biomarkers

Investigator:

N/A

Title:

Gene therapy for familial Alzheimer’s disease

Date of Request:

09/29/2019

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T1910

Aim 1:

To determine whether introduction of wildtype PS1 can rescue γ-secretase activity in cultured fibroblasts from autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD) patients with PSEN1 mutations

Investigator:

Kaj Blennow

Title:

Truncated tau species tau224 and tau368 in CSF and P-tau181 in plasma in familial AD as indicators of pathological brain tau metabolism

Date of Request:

08/14/2019

Status:

withdrawn

ID:

DIAN-T1908

Aim 1:

To examine how novel CSF biomarkers for tau pathology (tau truncated at positions 224 or 368) change with onset of amyloid pathology and tau pathology, as well as clinical disease onset and progression in familial AD

Aim 2:

To examine how plasma P-tau181 changes with onset of amyloid pathology and tau pathology, as well as clinical disease onset and progression in familial AD

Investigator:

Catherine Marquer

Title:

SYNAPTOJANIN 1 LEVELS IN DOMINANTLY INHERITED ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Date of Request:

07/05/2019

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T1907

Aim 1:

To test whether the protein levels of Synaptojanin1 are increased in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD), as they are in sporadic and Down Syndrome-AD

Investigator:

Djamel Lebeche

Title:

Pharmacological Validation of SERCA Activators for Diabetes Associated ADRD

Date of Request:

05/12/2019

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T1906

Aim 1:

To test SERCA activators in in vitro assays to assess their ability to rescue neuronal cells from ER stress-induced cell death (neuroprotection)

Aim 2:

To test the effects of SERCA activators in animal model of diabetes and Alzheimer's disease (APP/PS1-Ob/ob mice), and in iPSC derived from AD patients

Investigator:

Houlden and Kullmann/Houlden

Title:

Dominant and Recessive Intronic Repeat Expansions in Neurodegeneration

Date of Request:

02/25/2019

Status:

Withdrawn

ID:

DIAN-T1903

Aim 1:

Screen for the GGC repeat expansion in the NOTCH2NLC gene recently associated with dominant or sporadic neurodegeneration from our and Japanese labs.

Aim 2:

Screen the AAGGG recessive expansion seen in the RF gene associated with ataxia, MSA-like phenotype and neurodegeneration.

Aim 3:

We will haplotype patients with expansions to understand relationships between samples, SNPs associated with the disease and possible founder effects.

Aim 4:

Feedback results to be paired with biobank samples

Investigator:

Title:

RIPK1 regulated metabolic biomarkers

Date of Request:

02/14/2019

Status:

Not approved

ID:

DIAN-T1902

Aim 1:

Compare the baseline distribution of RIPK1 regulated metabolic biomarkers in CSF samples from DIAN patients vs. cognitively normal non-carrier family member controls

Aim 2:

Generate biomarker hypothesis to inform the decision making for a DIAN population in phase2a clinical trial with RIPK1 inhibitors

Investigator:

Steven M. Greenberg

Title:

CSF Biomarkers for Dutch-type Hereditary Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Date of Request:

02/07/2019

Status:

approved

ID:

DIAN-T1901

Aim 1:

1. Perform multiplex immunoassay measurements of a range of candidate biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from carriers and non-carriers of the Dutch-type hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy (D-CAA) mutation enrolled in DIAN.

Aim 2:

2. Perform parallel immunoassays on plasma samples drawn at similar timepoints to determine the correlation between CSF and plasma concentrations.

Aim 3:

3. Correlate CSF and plasma biomarkers with neuroimaging, biochemical and clinical features in the enrolled mutation carriers.