The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) was a longitudinal cohort study which investigated the natural history of knee osteoarthritis across the spectrum of the disease through the collection of imaging, biochemical, genetic, and risk markers of knee OA. Measures included knee symptoms and function (evaluated using the West Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) and the Knee injury and...

The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) began in 2004 as longitudinal multicenter study to identify clinical, imaging, genetic, and biochemical biomarkers for the detection and tracking of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Participants are recruited from and followed at 59 research sites in the United States and Canada. ADNI1 enrolled 400 subjects who were diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment...

Study investigators examined blood samples from participants in the NYU Women’s Health Study (NYUWHS)--a cohort of 14,274 women enrolled between 1985 and 1991 through a breast cancer screening center in New York City--to identify autoantibodies associated with healthy women. The blood samples were collected at the time of enrollment and at annual screening visits until 1991 and long term follow-up...

To study and compare longitudinal immune responses to two-dose BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinations, investigators recruited 15 adults with a history of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 and 21 adults who did not have COVID-19. Participants' ages ranged from 21 to 65 years old. Peripheral immune responses were assessed via blood samples drawn before and after each vaccine dose. A total of five samples were collected...

Since 2002, the Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group (IMCG) at Perlmutter Cancer Center has maintained one of the largest clinicopathologic resources, the Melanoma Clinicopathological-Biospecimen Database and Repository, for research on patients 18 years old and over with melanoma or at high risk for melanoma. Clinical data is stored in a secure REDCap database which contains 653 fields to...

To investigate whether acute SARS‐CoV‐2 infection was associated with (1) amyloidogenic, aggregation‐prone forms of αSyn in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), (2) signature of pathogenic changes, and (3) future risk for frank synucleinopathy, the research team compared CSF biomarkers obtained through lumbar puncture for the evaluation of neurologic symptoms from 12 adult patients hospitalized at NYU Langone...

The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) is an ongoing longitudinal study which aims to identify novel and modifiable biomechanical factors (e.g., physical activity), bone and joint structural factors (assessed through knee MRI), and nutritional factors that are associated with the onset and progression of osteoarthritis (OA)-related knee symptoms and radiographic knee OA. A secondary aim is to...

To investigate immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 antigens under various inflammatory conditions, researchers collected blood samples from five adult patients seen at NYU Langone Health with lab-confirmed cases of acute COVID-19 and from nine healthy adults (seven who had received the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and two with no prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2). Samples were obtained at multiple time points. Patients...