About ADiKA Consortium

A multi-institutional consortium dedicated to accelerating therapeutic discovery for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias through innovative knowledge integration and AI-driven insights.

Our Mission

The ADiKA Consortium is revolutionizing AD/ADRD research by creating the world's most comprehensive, FAIR-compliant knowledge base that integrates multi-scale biomedical data with real-world clinical evidence.

Our mission is to accelerate therapeutic discovery through innovative AI-driven hypothesis generation, federated learning approaches, and community-driven research collaboration.

FAIR Data Principles

Ensuring data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

Privacy-Preserving Analytics

Advanced federated learning without compromising patient privacy

Open Science

Transparent, reproducible research with community engagement

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Institutions
50+
Researchers
3.2M
Knowledge Nodes
27
Data Sources

Research Focus Areas

Our consortium focuses on four key research areas that together create a comprehensive approach to AD/ADRD therapeutic discovery.

Knowledge Graph Construction

Building comprehensive, ontology-aligned knowledge graphs that integrate genomic, proteomic, phenotypic, and clinical data from multiple sources.

  • Multi-scale data integration
  • FAIR data principles
  • Provenance tracking

AI-Driven Hypothesis Generation

Leveraging large language models and graph neural networks to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug repurposing opportunities.

  • LLM-assisted curation
  • Graph representation learning
  • Causal inference

Federated Learning & Privacy

Developing privacy-preserving machine learning approaches that enable multi-institutional collaboration without compromising patient data.

  • Differential privacy
  • Secure aggregation
  • Homomorphic encryption

Community Platform

Building an open, collaborative platform that enables researchers to share knowledge, validate hypotheses, and accelerate discovery.

  • Interactive APIs
  • Collaborative tools
  • Open governance

Key Publications

Our consortium has published groundbreaking research in top-tier journals, advancing the field of AD/ADRD therapeutic discovery.

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Featured Publications Coming Soon

We are currently verifying and curating peer-reviewed publications from the ADiKA Consortium related to knowledge graphs, biomedical data integration, and machine learning-based drug discovery.

Three groundbreaking papers from our consortium leaders (Xiaoqian Jiang, Cui Tao, Fei Wang, and Jiang Bian) will be featured here with direct links to verified publications.

For latest research updates, visit PubMed to search publications by our consortium members.

Join Our Mission

Be part of the future of AD/ADRD research. Whether you're a researcher, clinician, or institution, there are many ways to get involved in our consortium.