Research Resources

Data Requests

This page concerns access to data from the MADRC Research Cohort and related resources. If, instead, you would like more information about the Harvard Aging Brain Study data, click here.

Clinical Core Research Subjects

If you would like more information on our Center’s Longitudinal Cohort data or are interested in potential research collaborations, please send an email to either one of our Clinical Core Co-Directors, Deborah  Blacker, MD, ScD, or M. Teresa Gomez-Isla, MD, PhD.

If you would like more information on our Memory Disorders Unit (MDU) data, please send an email to either of our Clinical Core Co-Directors.

Brain Tissue Samples

If you would like more information on our Center’s brain tissue samples, please send an email to our Neuropathology Core Director, Matthew P. Frosch, MD, PhD.

Plasma Samples, DNA & Cell Lines

The MADRC maintains a bank of >80 iPSC lines and >500 primary dermal fibroblast lines derived from brain donors at the time of autopsy. For characterization of a subset of these lines please see the following publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38874454/. 

If you would like more information on our Center’s biospecimen samples and associated data, please send an email to our Biomarker Core Director, Steven E. Arnold, MD, PhD. 

For more information on our center’s fibroblasts and fibroblast-derived iPSCs, please send an email to Neuropathologist Derek H. Oakley, MD, PhD.

Database

If you would like more information on our Center’s database software or hardware systems, please send an email to our Data Management & Statistics Core Co-Director, Sudeshna Das, PhD.

Neuroimaging Data

If you would like more information on our Center’s neuroimaging data, please send an email to our Neuroimaging Core Director, Bradford C. Dickerson, MD, MMSc.