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AAIC 2024 Workshop

Date:

Friday, July 26, 2024

Time:

1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Location:

Marriott Downtown Philadelphia, Ballroom GKL (in-person only)
Join this in-person workshop for a dynamic overview of the opportunities for leveraging and integrating multimodal data to address pressing challenges in AD/ADRD. Multimodal data from single individuals is rapidly growing in volume and complexity and includes EHR, clinical data, genomics and other omics data, blood-based biomarkers, and imaging data. This increased richness of data creates opportunities to tackle new research questions and to overcome challenges related to navigating data repositories and combining data across disparate modalities. The workshop will begin with an overview of several existing data repositories in the AD/ADRD ecosystem. Attendees will then work in small teams to identify and outline research questions that are enabled by multimodal data and will pitch these ideas to a team of experts in the field. The workshop will conclude with a discussion about what infrastructure is most needed to facilitate multimodal data access and utilization to advance the field.
This will be a great opportunity to forge new collaborations, tackle pressing questions and challenges in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) research, and help shape multimodal research infrastructure for the field.

Agenda:

1:00 - 1:20pm :
Introductions and workshop goals
1:20 - 1:40pm :
Lightning talks highlighting available multimodal data in the AD/ADRD field
1:40 - 2:15pm :
Participants pitch ideas, problems, and research questions that can be tackled using multimodal data
2:15 - 2:30pm :
Team formation based on common research questions
2:30 - 2:45pm :
Break
2:45 - 3:45pm :
Hour-long team breakout discussions to develop research plans
3:45 - 4:45pm :
Sharebacks from research teams to the larger group
4:45 - 5:00pm :
Takeaways from data and infrastructure needs

Presenters:

  • Sarah Biber, PhD – National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC)
  • Anna Greenwood, PhD - Sage Bionetworks / AD Knowledge Portal
  • Li-San Wang, PhD – National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS)
  • Tatiana Foroud, PhD – National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD)
  • Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD – Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
We hope to see you in Philadelphia! Please reach out to info@naccdata.org with any questions.