Research Resources
Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement
Do you want support in recruitment and retention? Sign your study to our study support database at https://redcap.link/MADRCStudiesDatabase
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.
