UC2AR081039

Lupus Omics Cutaneous Kidney Investigative Team (LOCKIT) - As the pace of discovery in the biology, genetics, and environmental regulation of SLE accelerates, the speed and efficiency of translational application assumes even greater importance.

There is now unprecedented opportunity to harness technological advances to de-and reconstruct the enormity of phenotypic and immunologic heterogeneity in this prototypic autoimmune disease. Building on our clinical infrastructure and technical protocols that yielded high-quality tissue, urine, and peripheral cells for transcriptomic and proteomic analyses in AMP1, an expanded team of multi-disciplinary investigators together form the Lupus Omics Cutaneous Kidney Investigation Team (LOCKIT) in response to the FOA: Accelerating Medicine Partnership Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases (AMP AIM) program.

Collective team discussions aligned the most significant scientific opportunities with clinical needs to focus on the kidney and skin, each with its own challenging heterogeneity. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of both very early kidney disease (with comparisons to data on established/relapsed disease generated in AMP1) and treatment inadequacies overall were considered high priority goals in the field, as were differentiating acute from chronic cutaneous disease and monitoring differences in treatment responses in these skin disease subsets.

Availability of tissues to other teams will be complementary as biology is compared across diseases. Replicating successes of AMP1, LOCKIT will be led by the co-chairs of AMP1 SLE Clinical Working Group, Jill Buyon, NYU School of Medicine, and Michelle Petri, Johns Hopkins University. They are joined by nephrologist Brad Rovin, Ohio State University, and dermatologist Victoria Werth, University of Pennsylvania, each recognized for translational contributions to SLE.

To accomplish our directives and assure sufficient representation of underrepresented minorities among patients, included are three high-recruiting AMP1 sites led by Anna Broder, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Maria Dall'Era, University of California San Francisco; and Jennifer Anolik, University of Rochester (co-chair of AMP1 and PI of RA site, adding B cell expertise). Two new sites, led by Karen Costenbader, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Ben Chong, University of Texas, Southwestern, bring expertise in patient outcomes and cutaneous lupus, respectively. All collaborate and publish together with cohorts collectively totaling 5,541 patients consenting to registries, and archived specimens including 98,980 longitudinal blood derivatives, and 3,311 kidney and 715 skin biopsies.

To uniformly anchor discoveries, as in AMP1, Jeff Hodgin, University of Michigan, will lead a digital imaging repository. LOCKIT is poised to apply state-of-the-art technologies and next-generation analytics provided by scientific partnership with AMP AIM cores to interrogate tissues and biologic fluids from informative populations. Although focusing on the kidney and skin, our cohorts include all SLE manifestations, providing agility to address other organs as AMP AIM evolves.

LOCKIT commits to harmonize and optimize all aspects of the data pipeline, from collection to analysis, interpretation, and dissemination.

New York University

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES (NIAMS) MISSION IS TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES, TRAINING OF BASIC AND CLINICAL SCIENTISTS TO CARRY OUT THIS RESEARCH, AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON RESEARCH PROGRESS IN THESE DISEASES. THE EXTRAMURAL PROGRAM PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND CLINICAL STUDIES OF SYSTEMIC RHEUMATIC AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, SKIN BIOLOGY AND DISEASES, BONE BIOLOGY AND DISEASES, MUSCLE BIOLOGY AND DISEASES, AND JOINT BIOLOGY AND DISEASES AND ORTHOPAEDICS. NIAMS SYSTEMIC RHEUMATIC AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES PROGRAMS ADDRESS BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH, INCLUDING CLINICAL TRIALS AND OBSERVATIONAL AND MECHANISTIC STUDIES, FOCUSED ON IMMUNE-MEDIATED ARTHRITIS AND AUTOIMMUNE-RELATED ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISORDERS IN ADULTS AND CHILDREN. NIAMS SKIN BIOLOGY AND DISEASES PROGRAMS SUPPORT BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH IN SKIN, INCLUDING BOTH COMMON AND RARE SKIN DISEASES. THESE PROGRAMS INCLUDE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BASIC MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF SKIN, AS WELL AS STUDIES OF SKIN AS AN IMMUNE, SENSORY, ENDOCRINE, AND METABOLIC ORGAN. NIAMS BONE BIOLOGY AND DISEASES PROGRAMS SUPPORT RESEARCH ON THE CONTROL OF BONE FORMATION, RESORPTION, AND MINERALIZATION AS WELL AS THE EFFECTS OF SIGNALING MOLECULES ON BONE CELLS. THEY SUPPORT CLINICAL STUDIES OF INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT FRACTURES ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOPOROSIS AND RESEARCH INTO LESS COMMON BONE DISEASES. NIAMS MUSCLE BIOLOGY AND DISEASES PROGRAMS ENCOURAGE RESEARCH ON MUSCLE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, GROWTH, MAINTENANCE, AND HYPERTROPHY, PHYSIOLOGY OF CONTRACTION, STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF THE CONTRACTILE APPARATUS, DISEASE MECHANISMS, BIOMARKERS AND OUTCOME MEASURES, AND DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TESTING OF THERAPIES FOR CONDITIONS INCLUDING THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES. NIAMS JOINT BIOLOGY, DISEASES, AND ORTHOPAEDICS PROGRAMS SUPPORT A BROAD SPECTRUM OF RESEARCH CENTERED ON THE INTERPLAY AMONG THE BODY'S MUSCLES, BONES, AND CONNECTIVE TISSUES. THEY ENCOURAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, IMAGING, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH, AND THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ORTHOPAEDIC CONDITIONS. NIAMS PARTICIPATES IN THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) AND SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAMS. THE SBIR PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TO INCREASE SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. THE STTR PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO STIMULATE AND FOSTER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OUT BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO FOSTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.

93.310 - Trans-NIH Research Support

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) [HHS - NIH]

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) [HHS - NIH]

New York, New York 10016 United States

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Accelerating Medicines Partnership Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases: Disease Teams for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Psoriatic Spectrum Diseases, and Sjgrens Syndrome (UC2 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-AR-21-015)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 3332% from $150,000 to $5,148,251.