ADRC Digital Biomarker Pilots
NACC is excited to be partnering with Gates Ventures to accelerate innovative digital biomarker collection and sharing across the ADRC Program, advance ADRD research and discovery, and leverage technology to capture more data with less burden for participants and ADRCs
Goals:
- Accelerate innovative digital biomarker collection and sharing across the ADRC Program to advance ADRD research and discovery.
- Leverage technology to capture more data with less burden for participants and ADRC.
Funding will be provided through NACC. Funding will support:
- Partners: Provide digital instruments*
- ADRC's: Data collection with innovative digital instruments
- NACC: Integrating this data into the NACC Data Platform and sharing it with the ADRD researchers through the Data Front Door
*Instruments can be from a variety of sources and offered in kind
Selection Committee: TBA
About the Pilot Program
Pilot Requirements
- Adds research value and enhances metrics
- Reduces burden
- Expands and addresses diversity
- Involves multiple ADRDs
- Demonstrates scalability (including to other ADRCs)
- Amenable to a data challenge down the line
- Partnering companies must provide the raw digital files to NACC
Example Modalities
- Sleep
- Movement
- Gait (phone gyroscope measures)
- Fall detection
- Voice
- Video
- Language
- Eye tracking
- Digitized UDS
- non-UDS
- Mood
- Diet
- Biological Measures
- Driving
- Keystrokes
Example Tools
- Wearables
- Sensors
- Multi-sensor
- Smartphone Apps
- Algorithms
Proposed Timeline for Pilot Launch
- May 2nd, 2023: Announced at Spring ADRC meeting
- Fall 2023: Release RFA and select winners
- Winter 2023: Launch Pilots
Potential for follow-up support
- Funded Data Challenge using data collected from the pilot
- Promising digital pilots may be scaled to the full ADRC Program via NACC's U24 renewal
- SBIR/STTR