NEURODEGENERATION
EXPLORING COMMONALITIES
ACROSS DISEASES
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Miriam Davis and Clare Stroud, Rapporteurs
Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders
Board on Health Sciences Policy
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NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
This project was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the Alzheimer’s Association; CeNeRx Biopharma; the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health (NIH, Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139) through the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; Department of Veterans Affairs; Eli Lilly and Company; Fast Forward, LLC; Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; GE Healthcare, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.; Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC; Lundbeck Research USA; Merck Research Laboratories; The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; the National Science Foundation (Contract No. OIA-0753701); One Mind for Research; Pfizer Inc.; the Society for Neuroscience; and Wellcome Trust. The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON NEURODEGENERATION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION ACROSS DISEASESPECIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITIES1
STORY LANDIS (Co-Chair), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
JOHN TROJANOWSKI (Co-Chair), University of Pennsylvania
LUCIE BRUIJN, ALS Association
DON CLEVELAND, University of California, San Diego
JOHN DUNLOP, AstraZeneca
RICHARD HODES, National Institute on Aging
ANDREAS JEROMIN, Banyan Biomarkers
GARETH MAHER-EDWARDS, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.
LENNART MUCKE, University of California, San Francisco
KATHIE OLSEN, ScienceWorks
ALEXANDER OMMAYA, Department of Veterans Affairs
ANDREW SINGLETON, National Institute on Aging
WILLIAM THIES, Alzheimer’s Association
IOM Staff
CLARE STROUD, Program Officer
SHEENA M. POSEY NORRIS, Research Associate (from January 2013)
TONIA E. DICKERSON, Senior Program Assistant
1 Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
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FORUM ON NEUROSCIENCE AND NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS1
STEVEN HYMAN (Chair), The Broad Institute
SUSAN AMARA, Society for Neuroscience
MARC BARLOW, GE Healthcare, Inc.
MARK BEAR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KATJA BROSE, Neuron
DANIEL BURCH, PPD
C. THOMAS CASKEY, Baylor College of Medicine
TIMOTHY COETZEE, Fast Forward, LLC
EMMELINE EDWARDS, NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
MARTHA FARAH, University of Pennsylvania
RICHARD FRANK, GE Healthcare, Inc.
DANIEL GESCHWIND, University of California, Los Angeles
HANK GREELY, Stanford University
MYRON GUTMANN, National Science Foundation
RICHARD HODES, National Institute on Aging
THOMAS INSEL, National Institute of Mental Health
PHILLIP IREDALE, Pfizer Global Research and Development
DANIEL JAVITT, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
FRANCES JENSEN, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
STORY LANDIS, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
ALAN LESHNER, American Association for the Advancement of Science
HUSSEINI MANJI, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Inc.
DAVID MICHELSON, Merck Research Laboratories
RICHARD MOHS, Lilly Research Laboratories
ALEXANDER OMMAYA, Department of Veterans Affairs
ATUL PANDE, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.
STEVEN PAUL, Weill Cornell Medical College
TODD SHERER, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
PAUL SIEVING, National Eye Institute
JUDITH SIUCIAK, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
MARC TESSIER-LEVIGNE, The Rockefeller University
WILLIAM THIES, Alzheimer’s Association
NORA VOLKOW, National Institute on Drug Abuse
1 Institute of Medicine forums and roundtables do not issue, review, or approve individual documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
KENNETH WARREN, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
JOHN WILLIAMS, Wellcome Trust
STEVIN ZORN, Lundbeck USA
CHARLES ZORUMSKI, Washington University School of Medicine
IOM Staff
BRUCE M. ALTEVOGT, Forum Director
DIANA E. PANKEVICH, Program Officer
SHEENA M. POSEY NORRIS, Research Associate (from January 2013)
ELIZABETH K. THOMAS, Senior Program Assistant (until November 2012)
RACHEL J. KIRKLAND, Senior Program Assistant (from February 2013)
LORA TAYLOR, Financial Associate
DONNA RANDALL, Administrative Assistant
ANDREW M. POPE, Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
Reviewers
This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the workshop summary meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this workshop summary:
Lucie Bruijn, ALS Association
John Dunlop, AstraZeneca Neuroscience
Fen-Biao Gao, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Serge Przedborski, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this workshop summary was overseen by Joseph Coyle, Harvard Medical School. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this workshop summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this workshop summary rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.
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