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A multimodal approach to accelerate drug discovery and development in Alzheimer’s disease

Projektbeschreibung

Wirkstoffsuche gegen Alzheimer mit Kombination aus Genetik und Bildgebung

Neue Medikamente gegen die Alzheimer-Krankheit konnten in klinischen Studien bisher keine Verlangsamung des Krankheitsverlaufs erzielen. Alternative therapeutische Angriffspunkte werden daher weiterhin gesucht. Darum sollen im EU-finanzierten Projekt MAP-AD jetzt über autosomale und auf dem X-Chromosom gelegene genetische Varianten neue molekulare Signalwege und mögliche Angriffspunkte für die Behandlung gefunden werden. Die Wirkung bestimmter genetischer Varianten auf die Genexpression wird über Analysen von Hirngewebe nach dem Tode entschlüsselt. Kombiniert mit multimodaler Bilddatenanalyse des Gehirns werden die Genominformationen genutzt, um Betroffene korrekt in klinische Studien einzubinden. Die Wirkstoffentwicklung zur Prävention und Behandlung der Alzheimer-Krankheit wird so stark vorangetrieben.

Ziel

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major societal challenge, impacting up to one third of the population over 85 years old. The European Commission and various international bodies have repeatedly fostered research initiatives to prevent the development or stem the progression of the disease. Several recent phase 3 clinical trials have failed to show any efficacy in slowing disease progression, calling into question the current drug targets. This project will use genetic data to identify new AD-relevant molecular pathways and their associated drug targets. Given the increased risk of AD in women, we will apply our innovative analyses not only to autosomal variants but also to X-chromosome variants as well. The mechanistic effects of genetic variants on pathogenesis will be delineated using gene expression from post-mortem brain tissue and AD biomarkers derived from multimodal brain imaging studies. These in-vivo PET and MRI biomarkers are essential for enrolling patients correctly in clinical trials and assessing the effect of treatments on disease progression. We will assess whether a polygenic risk score, based on thousands of genetic variants, will be useful in predicting an individual’s clinical and biomarker progression over time. This project is markedly interdisciplinary in nature between its analysis of multimodal brain imaging and genomics data, and the combination of big data analysis guided by expert medical knowledge of the pathogenesis. Results have the potential to (i) identify new drug targets and (ii) strengthen clinical trial design, thereby speeding the development of drugs for the prevention and treatment of AD. This fellowship represents a unique opportunity to transfer knowledge and analysis methods of next generation genomics AD data from one of the leading US groups in integrating multimodal imaging and genomics data to the European AD research community.

Koordinator

INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE EPINIERE
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€ 257 619,84
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BOULEVARD DE L'HOPITAL 47
75013 Paris
Frankreich

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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
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