Our Cores
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The Administrative Core is the executive governing body of the ADRC and provides the vision and leadership necessary to achieve the ADRC's general and thematic goals.
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The Columbia University ADRC Biomarker Core serves as a central hub for human biofluid, PET, and MRI-based biomarker research conducted within the cognitive aging and dementia community.
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The ADRC Clinical Core provides the clinical operations of the ADRC, as well as supporting the other ADRC cores and the general research endeavors of the ADRC.
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The Genetics Core acts as a centralized resource for organization and analysis of genetic data within the ADRC, providing comprehensive genetic characterization of all ADRC research participants.
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The Neuroimmunology Core supports the development of biosample and data resources along one of the three thematic axes of the ADRC.
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The Neuropathology Core provides state-of-the-art diagnostic services and collects, maintains, and distributes optimally prepared brain tissue samples to CUIMC and worldwide investigators.
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The Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core (ORE) plays an essential role in achieving the proposed goals of the Columbia ADRC.
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The Research and Education Core (REC) Training Program enhances the primary aims of the Columbia ADRC—to enable and contribute to ongoing Alzheimer's disease research efforts.
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The DMS Core is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the ADRC's ever-expansive and complex relational database of clinical and genetic data, neuropathological and biospecimen indicators.
