Framework for a series of high priority multiscale analyses

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Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting more than 5 million Americans. Despite significant investment in drug discovery and development, no therapeutic options yet exist that can prevent, slow, or cure AD. The Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Alzheimer’s Disease Target Discovery and Preclinical Validation project (AMP-AD) was designed to help address this problem by identifying candidate targets through evaluation of AD-induced changes in human molecular state on a systems level. The program uses an open science paradigm to support early, iterative integration of resources and evaluation of findings across multiple independent teams. To extend this work we propose a cross team analytic effort to 1. Create a machine learning model of temporal Alzheimer’s disease progression. 2. Harmonize CNS model of disease progression and peripheral measures of disease state, and 3. Combine heterogeneous biomolecular networks with the molecular model of disease progression for a unified multi-scale model of disease mechanism and progression. This will amplify the impact of the individual team’s efforts, and help disentangle the molecular and temporal complexity of this devastating disease.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10071815
Project number
3U24AG061340-02S1
Recipient
SAGE BIONETWORKS
Principal Investigator
LARA M MANGRAVITE
Activity code
U24
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$156,188
Award type
3
Project period
2018-09-30 → 2023-08-31