Waisman Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

我们寻求魏斯曼中心智力和发育障碍研究的持续支持 中心，一个全面的跨学科计划，重点是IDD跨越生物，生物行为， 生物行为科学魏斯曼IDDRC汇集了来自21个学术部门的46名PI， 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的医学和公共卫生，兽医，药学，农业和生命学院 科学，文学与科学，教育，工程和人类生态学。本申请要求 支持行政核心（核心A），提供科学领导，计划和教师发展， 促进跨学科合作，生物统计和生物信息学专业知识;和三个创新 科学核心服务：临床翻译（核心B），提供服务，资源和培训， 招募人类参与者、临床评估、行为方法开发和cGMP 脑成像（核心C），提供最先进的神经成像 仪器（用于人类、非人类灵长类动物和啮齿类动物扫描的3 T MRI、PET和microPET扫描仪， 和脑电图记录系统），以及图像采集和分析的专门知识和工具; 模型（核心D），在生成和表征方面提供资源、专业知识和技术服务 突变或基因工程小鼠和大鼠品系，诱导多能干细胞的产生 来自患有IDD病症的人类的细胞系，以及使用 分子、细胞和行为技术。此外，我们请求支持一个研究项目， 集中在FMR 1基因中CGG重复长度的变化对健康和功能的影响， 细胞通过有机体水平，使用细胞培养模型和人类受试者。 我们建议为79个研究项目提供核心支援，这些项目由46名首席研究员负责，涵盖三大主题 与IDD相关：1）神经系统发育和发病机制，2）IDD状况，和3）评估， 干预和治疗。韦斯曼中心的核心服务和研究项目 IDDRC将促进新的跨学科IDD研究，并加强现有的IDD调查 我们的重点是发现，预防和治疗IDD疾病，并改善生活质量， IDD患者及其家人。

We seek continued support of the Waisman Center Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, a comprehensive interdisciplinary program focused on IDD spanning the biological, biobehavioral, and bio-behavioral sciences. The Waisman IDDRC brings together 46 PIs from 21 academic departments from the UW-Madison's Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Letters and Science, Education, Engineering, and Human Ecology. This application requests support for an Administrative Core (Core A), providing scientific leadership, program and faculty development, facilitation of interdisciplinary collaboration, and biostatistical and bioinformatics expertise; and three innovative scientific core services: Clinical Translational (Core B), providing services, resources, and training in the recruitment of human participants, clinical assessment, behavioral methods development, and cGMP biomanufacturing of therapeutics; Brain Imaging (Core C), providing access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging instrumentation (3T MRI, PET, and microPET scanners for human, non-human primate, and rodent scanning, and an EEG recording system), as well as expertise and tools for image acquisition and analysis; and IDD Models (Core D), providing resources, expertise, and technical services in the generation and characterization of mutant or genetically engineered strains of mice and rats, the generation of induced pluripotent stem cell lines from humans with IDD conditions, and facilities for phenotypic characterization of these models using molecular, cellular and behavioral technologies. In addition, we request support for a Research Project that is focused on the impact of variations in CGG repeat length in the FMR1 gene on health and function at the cellular through organismal level, using both cell culture models and human subjects. We propose to provide core support to 79 research projects headed by 46 PIs addressing three broad themes relevant to IDD: 1) nervous system development and pathogenesis, 2) IDD conditions, and 3) assessment, interventions, and therapeutics. Collectively the core services and the research project of the Waisman Center IDDRC will stimulate new interdisciplinary IDD research and enhance existing IDD investigations sharpening our focus on discovery, prevention, and treatment for IDD conditions, and improvement of the quality of life of individuals with IDD and their families.