Today I am proud to announce the launch of the Brain Health Accelerator, a global initiative to transform our understanding of brain disease and accelerate the development of new treatments.
For more than 20 years, the @AllenInstitute has built foundational data, tools, technologies, and knowledge that have helped reshape neuroscience. Today, we are taking the next step: bringing together scientists, clinicians, technologists, AI experts, patient advocates, philanthropists, and industry partners around a shared mission to tackle some of the world’s most devastating brain diseases.
#BrainHealth will initially focus on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and Lewy body disease, while building a radically open and collaborative framework designed to accelerate progress across many neurological disorders.
This effort launches with a total commitment of more than $400 million, including $200 million from the Allen Institute (supported by the Fund for Science and Technology), $100 million from the Bezos family, and an additional $100 million from @awscloud, @NIH-supported programs, and @Everything_ALS.
We believe the future of brain health will be built through unprecedented collaboration, cutting-edge biology, advanced AI, and open science.
Science unites us. Together, we can go farther and create a healthier world.
#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #OpenScience #AI #BrainInitiative #NIH #Neurodegeneration #Alzheimers #LewyBodyDisease #Parkinsons #ALS #HuntingtonsDisease
Took a much needed break from the erg tonight—just under 33 mi rowed this week. Gonna do a two hour set tomorrow. It really helps keep my #pd symptoms manageable. #BrainHealth#movementIsMedicine
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Thanks to a partnership with @ASAP_Research and @MichaelJFoxOrg, the @AllenInstitute's ABC Atlas now includes #ParkinsonsDisease data from 3 million brain cells from 9 regions.
This is the first time Parkinson’s data has been included in the Atlas. It nearly doubles the amount of human brain data available and gives researchers a shared language and a powerful tool to explore how diseases like #Parkinsons and #Alzheimers affect the brain at the cellular level.
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