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Integrating genetics and health data to discover common drug effects on cancer and Alzheimer's disease

Award Number: R35GM151001
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/15/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2028

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Integrating genetics and health data to discover common drug effects on cancer and Alzheimer's disease - Project summary/abstract Most Americans past middle age are taking one or more common drugs, and these drugs may have hidden impacts on their subsequent risk of major health outcomes like cancer or Alzheimer's disease. Discovering such drug effects could improve disease prevention and suggest drug repurposing opportunities. One approach to this end is to follow the outcomes of people taking each common drug, as recorded in health records data. While health data is growing in size and detail, it is noisy and incomplete. There is a critical need for new methods to discover drug effects from existing data sources. We propose novel systematic approaches to assess drug-wide association with cancer or Alzheimer's disease by modeling the health record. One innovative concept is our parallel efforts mining independent genetics data. We hypothesize drug side effects can be predicted by analysis of pathological processes shared between the drug's original use and the side effect disease. Analyzing evidence of shared etiology between health conditions and cancer or dementia, we will test this hypothesis. Our efforts to systematically discover drug effects from independent health data and genetics will strengthen our methods. Combining both types of evidence can also allow critical evaluation of putative drug effects on a late-onset disease. While many data-driven studies leave evaluation of the results to future work, we integrate rigorous evaluations into our methods as a means to improve them and strengthen their findings. If successful, our findings c improve clinical management of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases, illnesses of high


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $365,947 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	220 PAWTUCKET ST STE 400	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	6/20/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$365,947
														Subtotal = $365,947

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $366,951 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 450	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	002	2	6/26/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$366,951
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 212	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	001	1	11/30/2023	NEW	$364,942
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 212	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	11/29/2023	NEW	-$364,942
														Subtotal = $366,951

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $364,942 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 212	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	8/8/2023	NEW	$364,942
														Subtotal = $364,942

Grand Total All Awards = $1,097,840

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Integrating genetics and health data to discover common drug effects on cancer and Alzheimer's disease

Award Number: R35GM151001

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/15/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2028

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