Seattle, WA— After years of collaboration with leading research institutions around the world, Global Research Platforms, LLC is proud to announce the official unveiling of the Global Research and Imaging Platform (GRIP) – a secure, cloud-based, open-access ecosystem designed to accelerate biomedical discovery in dementia research by helping researchers more easily integrate, analyze, and share complex data. 

“This is the day we’ve been waiting for,” said Farhad Imam, GRIP’s Scientific Director and Platform Co-Lead. “With GRIP’s analysis platform now available to use free-of-charge at research institutions, we’ve created a community-driven digital environment that will facilitate data sharing and accelerate much-needed insights into dementia and other neurological disorders.”   

“GRIP is a long-needed innovative research platform that brings siloed research together by offering open access tools to accelerate discovery of new diagnostics and treatments for these debilitating neurodegenerative diseases,” said Rhoda Au, PhD, Professor at Boston University and Investigator of the Framingham Heart Study. 

Reflecting the input and contributions of research institutions from across the globe, GRIP is a community-driven, interoperable work environment purpose-built to resolve the typical challenges that have hindered progress in dementia research. Because traditional tools and platforms have often operated in silos, data integration, analysis, and sharing has been cumbersome and time-consuming, and it has been difficult for scientists to efficiently utilize the vast amounts of multi-modal data generated across various domains.  

To address these challenges, GRIP incorporates many existing research tools and systems to simplify the data sharing process and offers a suite of benefits designed to facilitate the analysis of complex data and imaging among dementia researchers. These include: 

• Modular Workflows: GRIP users have access to automated or semi-automated, reusable workflows co-developed with research partners, ensuring flexibility and reproducibility. 
• Secure Collaboration: GRIP users can engage in analyses within trusted research environments that adhere to governance policies and enable efficient data sharing. 
• Customizable and Community-Driven Tools: Researchers on GRIP can use, adapt, or build tools that fit their research needs – and then contribute them back to the GRIP ecosystem to support the wider scientific community.

“The number of people suffering from dementia is expected to double by 2050, both in the United States and worldwide,” says Niranjan Bose, Managing Director of Health & Life Sciences at Gate Ventures, who helped spearhead the GRIP project. “We desperately need innovative research platforms like GRIP that can bring siloed researchers together to drive the next generation of discoveries in neuroscience.” 

GRIP partner Allan Levey, MD, PhD, the Director of Emory's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, says “GRIP provides an exciting platform for bringing together new tools to advance research, integrate multi-modal data from a variety of research and clinical sources, and greatly facilitate collaborations.” 

Going forward, the GRIP team expects to further enhance the platform’s offerings by incorporating a suite of AI-enhanced tools for any researcher who wishes to use them. "As a member of the GRIP Technical Advisory Group,” says Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD, “I'm enthusiastic about the transformative potential of AI agents to dramatically enhance GRIP's impact. By intelligently integrating and interpreting diverse global datasets, these AI-driven tools can accelerate discoveries, uncover new insights, and catalyze unprecedented collaborations across Alzheimer's research. The integration of advanced AI within GRIP represents an exciting frontier in our shared mission against Alzheimer's disease." 

Years in the making, GRIP has benefited from the insights and contributions of many of the world’s leading dementia research institutions, including Banner Health, Emory University, John Hopkins University, University of Gothenburg, the University of Southern California, Mass General Brigham, the University of Kansas, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Indiana University, Duke University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Francisco, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 

To learn more about GRIP or become a part of the growing GRIP research community, visit or e-mail .