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ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

Open drug discovery in Alzheimer's disease.

Alison D Axtman, Paul E Brennan, Tristan Frappier-Brinton, Ranjita Betarbet, Gregory W Carter, Haian Fu, Opher Gileadi, Anna K Greenwood, Karina Leal, Frank M Longo and 4 more

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Article in Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. PAK1 inhibitor NVS-PAK1-1 preserves dendritic spines in amyloid/tau exposed neurons and 5xFAD mice.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  8. Open drug discovery in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Alison D AxtmanUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA.
Paul E BrennanOxford Drug Discovery Institute University of Oxford Oxford UK.
Tristan Frappier-BrintonStructural Genomics Consortium University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.
Ranjita BetarbetEmory University School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia USA.
Gregory W CarterThe Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor Maine USA.
Haian FuEmory University School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia USA.
Opher GileadiStructural Genomics Consortium Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden.
Anna K GreenwoodSage Bionetworks Seattle Washington USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3577-0243
Karina LealSage Bionetworks Seattle Washington USA.
Frank M LongoStanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA.
Lara M MangraviteSage Bionetworks Seattle Washington USA.
Aled M EdwardsStructural Genomics Consortium University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.
Allan I LeveyEmory University School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia USA.
Emory‐Sage‐SGC TREAT‐AD Center

Funding

TREAT AD Structural Biology CoreU54AG065187 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Gregory W Carter, ALLAN I LEVEY · 2019 to 2026
$69.7M
NIA NIH HHS U54 AG065187
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug discovery has focused on a set of highly studied therapeutic hypotheses, with limited success. The heterogeneous nature of AD processes suggests that a more diverse, systems-integrated strategy may identify new therapeutic hypotheses. Although many target hypotheses have arisen from systems-level modeling of human disease, in practice and for many reasons, it has proven challenging to translate them into drug discovery pipelines. First, many hypotheses implicate protein targets and/or biological mechanisms that are under-studied, meaning there is a paucity of evidence to inform experimental strategies as well as high-quality reagents to perform them. Second, systems-level targets are predicted to act in concert, requiring adaptations in how we characterize new drug targets. Here we posit that the development and open distribution of high-quality experimental reagents and informatic outputs-termed target enabling packages (TEPs)-will catalyze rapid evaluation of emerging systems-integrated targets in AD by enabling parallel, independent, and unencumbered research.

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Alzheimer's diseasedrug developmentdrug targetsgenomicsproteomicssystems biologyTEPs

Identifiers

PMID37215505
PMCPMC10192886

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