BOSTON, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Invicro LLC, a REALM IDx, Inc company, announces a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health's new intramural research effort, the Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (CARD), through a data science contract with Data Tecnica International LLC (DTi), to offer a curated collection of harmonized brain imaging and genomics data that will help identify dementia and other neurodegenerative disorder risk factors to better stratify subjects and their disease progression.
"We are excited to collaborate with CARD on this significant effort," stated Dr. Jacob Hesterman, Founding Partner and Chief Technology Officer for Invicro. "This collaboration provides an outstanding opportunity to make the highest quality image analysis available to the broader scientific community and contribute to the mission of Open Science. Together, we form the multi-disciplinary team needed to deliver on the promise of rich, curated multi-omic data offered by large, complex data sets."
Invicro strives to enhance and accelerate personalized health through integrated diagnostics via multi-omic assay development, services, and analytics, which fully aligns with the mission of this collaboration. This partnership will provide clinicians with a better understanding of how the underlying genetic makeup and a patient's medical history could impact the prediction, treatment, and prevention of neurodegenerative disease that could be used for precision medicine approaches.
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"Alzheimer's and Related Dementias are multi-system and remarkably complex. To better understand these disorders, we need to take a comprehensive, multi-modal approach, integrating and analyzing large datasets of multi-omics and imaging," stated Dr. Faraz Faghri, senior scientific data consultant and computer science lead at DTi working on contract with CARD. "This collaboration will bring together all the essential expertise needed to advance the neurodegenerative disorders research and enable the scientific community in an Open Science framework."
Part of the NIH intramural research program, CARD is primarily a collaboration between the NIH's National Institute on Aging and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. CARD supports basic, translational, and clinical research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias that will lead to the development of improved treatments and preventions for these diseases.
