{"id":34089,"date":"2016-06-16T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=34089"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:22:45","slug":"farrer-to-lead-busm-efforts-in-multi-site-ad-genomic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/06\/16\/farrer-to-lead-busm-efforts-in-multi-site-ad-genomic-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrer to Lead BUSM Efforts in Multi-Site AD Genomic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32378\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/04\/COM-bu-today-alzheimers_part_4_farrer_bg-e1466089599402.jpg\" alt=\"Farrer, BU Distinguished Professor of Genetics, chief of biomedical genetics, and a BU Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Center faculty member\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32378\" height=\"272\" width=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay Farrer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A five-year, nearly $10.8 million award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will establish the Coordinating Center for Genetics and Genomics of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD), a collaboration of researchers from six academic institutions including BUSM. Lindsay Farrer, PhD, BU Distinguished\u00a0Professor\u00a0of Genetics &amp; Chief, Biomedical Genetics, will lead the NIH-funded center at BUSM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Center will curate, harmonize and analyze clinical information and genetics and genomics data obtained from tens-of-thousands of AD and cognitively normal controls from multiple ethnic backgrounds,\u201d says Farrer. \u201cThese efforts will undoubtedly lead to new discoveries that will help us understand the mechanisms leading to AD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Center, which will be based at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will act as a national clearinghouse for AD genomics information. By coordinating the identification of Alzheimer\u2019s related genes, the Center hopes to find new therapeutic targets of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Farrer, PhD, BU Distinguished Professor of Genetics &#038; Chief, Biomedical Genetics division will lead NIH grant funded center at BUSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34333,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089\/revisions\/34333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}