About Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative
The Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative is on a mission to fundamentally transform Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research. We offer researchers around the world secure data sharing and analytics tools and collaboration resources, all available to users at no cost.
Led by a global coalition of academic, industry, government and nonprofit partners, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative empowers researchers by fostering research collaboration, enabling seamless access to multiple data sharing platforms, and unlocking important Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) datasets.
Together, we are advancing scientific breakthroughs and accelerating discoveries in new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for ADRD.
Driving Research Forward – Together
Further Your Research: Visit the AD Discovery Portal today to explore datasets and request access via AD Workbench.
Interested in accelerating innovation by sharing ADRD data? Learn more here.
Advancing discoveries through collaborative effort
Guided by priority research questions that were developed by a coalition of partners and leaders in the AD field, we’re advancing a scientific strategy to seed innovation and accelerate breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s and related dementias research.
Powering research though our interoperable data sharing and analytics environment
100+ datasets | 6K+ registered users | from over 120 countries
AD Workbench – a secure, cloud-based data sharing and analytics environment – is the interoperability layer of the AD Data Initiative technical suite and its flagship product offering.
Easy to use and available at no cost, AD Workbench empowers researchers around the world to share, access and analyze data across platforms.
For Researchers
Researchers can access a diverse collection of over 100 novel datasets and collaborate, curate, combine, analyze and visualize data via secure, private, cloud-based Workspaces.
For Data Contributors
Data contributors can securely share their ADRD data and manage permissions and access. We offer a variety of tools to help contributors more easily share data to advance ADRD research.
Accelerating research through strategic initiatives and collaborative science
We invest in strategic initiatives such as fellowships, data challenges, and driver projects to foster global collaboration, empower researchers, and advance scientific discovery. Learn about our coalition’s efforts to encourage and enable more data sharing and collaborative science.
Gates Notes
Posted November 17, 2020
I’m optimistic that this will make a real difference in Alzheimer’s research, because there are many examples where we’ve made progress on diseases after bringing together large amounts of data.