Information and Resources for Researchers

The Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), funded by the National Institute on Aging, serves as a shared resource to promote, enable, and enhance interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias. Our strategy of deep phenotyping draws together multiple levels of biological data from individual volunteers with and without cognitive impairment, who are followed over time. We enroll healthy older volunteers as well as volunteers with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Lewy body disease.

The Stanford ADRC houses a rich array of data and banked samples.  These are available for collaborative research on Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias.  Our ADRC is committed to sharing de-identified resources with Stanford investigators and with other qualified U.S. and international researchers to support research on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.  

Resources can be broadly categorized as 1) data and 2) biological specimens.   Biological specimens can be linked to de-identified data from individual ADRC participants, including demographic, clinical, neuropsychological, imaging and biomarker data.   Further Information on our resources is given below.

Clinical, neuropsychological, and imaging resources

(updated 7/15/2021)

Biospecimen, tissue, and cell line resources


Resource requests can be made by completing our online form, and Stanford ADRC staff will then contact you about steps needed to move forward. Resource recipients agree to acknowledge the Stanford ADRC in all publications and presentations that make use of these resources:  Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, NIH grant P30 AG066515.

Stanford ADRC data portal

Stanford ADRC data portal for study summary and data/resource request


Acknowledging the Center

If you receive Stanford ADRC-supported funding, resources, or data, you are responsible for acknowledging the Stanford ADRC in publications, posters, and presentations:

  • Investigators receiving support of the Farrukh–Jamal Stanford ADRC — including funding, resources, and data — must acknowledge the Stanford ADRC and the National Institute on Aging as follows: “Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, NIH/NIA grant P30 AG066515.”
  • Investigators funded by the NIH — including those supported by the Stanford ADRC — must submit publications for inclusion in Pub Med Central and obtain a PubMed CID (PMCID). Visit NIH Public Access website to learn more about the submission process and for a list of journals that are automatically submitted to PubMed Central.