[Neuroinfo] Funding Opportunity: GAAIN Exploration to Evaluate Novel Alzheimer’s Queries (GEENA-Q)

[Jyl Boline]

We are excited to announce a funding opportunity from the Alzheimer’s Association (below), we hope you or someone in your organization will consider applying. Please feel free forward to send this to others that may be interested. Contact us with any questions or comments you may have.

GAAIN is offering training sessions, email info at gaain.org<mailto:info at gaain.org> with a few dates and times that work for you (note, we are in the Pacific time zone) and we will arrange a web-ex meeting.

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Program Goal:

The GAAIN Exploration to Evaluate Novel Alzheimer’s Queries (GEENA-Q) will stimulate researchers to interrogate the federated GAAIN network for new discoveries in Alzheimer’s research.

Background:

The Global Alzheimer’s Association Interactive Network (GAAIN,gaain.org<http://gaain.org>) is a big data platform for cohort discovery and data exploration focused on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. GAAIN provides tools that allow researchers to explore diverse clinical, health factor, genetic, and imaging datasets from Data Partners around the world quickly and intuitively. GAAIN currently has nearly 500,000 unique clinical records from nearly 30 clinical studies around the world available for interrogation across data elements.

The GAAIN Interrogator provides an analytical platform from which to explore, query, and visualize GAAIN data. One key new feature is the capacity to conduct preliminary analyses on remotely accessible data. The new tool is highly flexible and enables users to easily create custom cohorts to use in analyses.

Program Description:

The GEENA-Q program will support scientific investigation using the GAAIN tools to generate creative insights into Alzheimer’s and dementia queries. Projects will be awarded $25,000 to launch and carry forward discovery based research to address targeted questions. GEENA-Q aims to accelerate our knowledge of biological and/or clinical change across the continuum of disease.

Applications to the GEENA-Q program will be accepted that utilize the GAAIN platform to explore novel questions in Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Proposals should focus on correlations and investigations across multiple data sets, and utilize the GAAIN Data Partners for the specific area of interest. Proposals should clearly outline the type of study, the rationale for the query, the plan to further advance the investigation.

Eligibility:

Applications are encouraged from research laboratories and teams around the world. Researchers with full-time staff or faculty appointments are encouraged to apply. Post-doctoral fellows are eligible to apply as a principal investigator (PI), but must collaborate with an administrative PI who serves as the director of the laboratory in which the research will be conducted. The administrative PI will be responsible for assisting in providing all institutional documents required for the project and will be required to sign any award contract. Training or mentoring-only proposals will not be considered.

Letters of Intent (LOI) must be received by 5:00 PM ET, April 4, 2018. All LOIs must be completed and submitted through the online system proposalCENTRAL at https://proposalcentral.altum.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__proposalcentral.altum.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=hzH9qgIfJtwMmLpiksZR1ZE81GsUQ9NLKx4XZNsQwGk&m=wHeeV56HMAOgGCOrnLbRGjiVnqPXJHiNvZUhYRginO0&s=sQ6tgfXm6VKWWTDzW9Jz1--QEqJXFp_2KmM9vyGY2-Q&e=>.

For more information regarding GEENA-Q:

• Visit: alz.org/grants<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__alz.org_grants&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=hzH9qgIfJtwMmLpiksZR1ZE81GsUQ9NLKx4XZNsQwGk&m=wHeeV56HMAOgGCOrnLbRGjiVnqPXJHiNvZUhYRginO0&s=xkrOQ2Q4-a3c0gwPieBK_N2s9U0BDHYMNcg5tVvyP04&e=>, https://www.alz.org/research/downloads/GEENAQ.pdf, or https://www.alz.org/research/alzheimers_grants/types_of_grants.asp

• Email: grantsapp at alz.org<mailto:grantsapp at alz.org>

• Call: 1.312.335.5747<tel:(312)%20335-5747> or 1.312.335.5862<tel:(312)%20335-5862>

For more information regarding GAAIN: Visit GAAIN.org<http://GAAIN.org> or emailinfo at gaain.org<mailto:emailinfo at gaain.org>
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