Core F: Biomarker Core

生物标志物为早期发现、鉴别诊断和疾病监测提供了重要信息。 阿尔茨海默病(AD)和AD相关痴呆(ADRD)，包括慢性创伤性脑病 (CTE)。波士顿大学阿尔茨海默病研究中心新成立的Biomarker Core (BU ADRC)将由三名在生物标记物开发和验证方面有经验的临床医生科学家领导：Lee 戈尔茨坦医学博士和邱文迪博士将担任联合领导，罗纳德·基利亚尼博士， 谁将领导神经成像部门。Biomarker Core将利用他们的专业知识和现有的 机构资源，专注于与阿尔茨海默氏症相关的液体生物样品和神经成像生物标记物 疾病(AD)和相关痴呆(ADRD)，包括慢性创伤性脑病(CTE)。的目标是 BioMarker Core将与其他核心协作并集中生物标记计划，以支持BU ADRC 改善AD和ADRDS的早期和准确诊断、鉴别和监测的使命，包括 CTE。新的Biomarker Core将存储、分发和分析液体生物显微镜和神经成像数据 由BU、ADRC和盟国财团内外的调查人员共同使用。我们将重点关注 已建立的生物流体和神经成像生物标记物(淀粉样蛋白-Tau-神经变性A/T/N NIA-AA研究 框架)，目的是确定AD和ADRD之间的区别。核心还将进行 基于发现的新出现的生物流体和神经成像生物标记物的开发，以使更早和 更准确地检测、鉴别诊断、分期和跟踪整个疾病中的AD和ADRD 频谱。提出了四个具体目标。目标1：加工、储存和分发液体生物制剂和 神经成像数据。目的2：测量和分析已建立的生物标志物(A/T/N NIA-AA研究框架)。 目标3：开展新生物标志物的发现和开发，包括血液来源的分析 神经影像数据的外体和多模式计算策略。目标4：培训下一代广告 生物标记物和神经影像研究的领导者。我们预计，新的Biomarker Core将加强BU ADRC研究，促进液体和神经成像生物标记物资源的共享，与努力协调 推进国家AD/ADRD计划，为个性化医疗提供新的见解和生物识别 诊断、治疗和预防AD和ADRD的方法。

Biomarkers provide important information for early detection, differential diagnosis, and disease monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRDs), including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The newly established Biomarker Core of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (BU ADRC) will be led by three clinician-scientists with experience in biomarker development and validation: Lee Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D. and Wendy Qiu, M.D., Ph.D., who will serve as co-leaders, and Ronald Killiany, Ph.D., who will lead the neuroimaging component. The Biomarker Core will leverage their expertise and existing institutional resources to focus on fluid biospecimen and neuroimaging biomarkers relevant to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD), including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The goal of the Biomarker Core is to collaborate with other cores and centralize biomarker initiatives to support the BU ADRC mission to improve early and accurate diagnosis, differentiation, and monitoring of AD and ADRDs, including CTE. The new Biomarker Core will bank, distribute, and analyze fluid biospecimens and neuroimaging data for shared use by investigators within and outside the BU ADRC and allied national consortia. We will focus on established biofluid and neuroimaging biomarkers (Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration A/T/N NIA-AA Research Framework) with the goal of identifying differences between AD and ADRDs. The Core will also conduct discovery-based development of novel emerging biofluid and neuroimaging biomarkers to enable earlier and more accurate detection, differential diagnosis, staging, and tracking of AD and ADRDs across the disease spectrum. Four Specific Aims are proposed. Aim 1: Process, bank, and distribute fluid biospecimens and neuroimaging data. Aim 2: Measure and analyze established biomarkers (A/T/N NIA-AA Research Framework). Aim 3: Conduct discovery and development of emerging biomarkers, including analysis of blood-derived exosomes and multimodal computational strategies for neuroimaging data. Aim 4: Train next-generation AD biomarker and neuroimaging research leaders. We anticipate that the new Biomarker Core will strengthen BU ADRC research, promote sharing of fluid and neuroimaging biomarker resources, harmonize with efforts to advance national AD/ADRD initiatives, and provide new new insights and biometrics for personalized medicine approaches to diagnose, treat, and prevent AD and ADRD.