10/26/2015 1 Producing Neurological Therapies: How we are Doing Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D. Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH July 20, 2015 1 The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) The mission of NINDS is to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease. Strategies: • Invest across the full spectrumof basic, translational, and clinical research • Establish a data-driven process to identify unmet scientific opportunities and public health needs within and across neurological diseases • Support research resources and technical advances that catalyze new discoveries • Communicate and collaboratewith the public and with others involved in biomedical research • Train a robust and diverse neuroscience research workforce • Adopt a culture of evaluation and continuous improvementacross all NINDS programs http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/plans/NINDS_strategic_plan.htm
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Producing
Neurological
Therapies:
How we are
DoingWalter J. Koroshetz, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, NIH
July 20, 2015
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The National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
The mission of NINDS is to seek fundamental knowledge
about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge
to reduce the burden of neurological disease.
Strategies:• Invest across the full spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical
research
• Establish a data-driven process to identify unmet scientific opportunitiesand public health needs within and across neurological diseases
• Support research resources and technical advances that catalyze new discoveries
• Communicate and collaborate with the public and with others involved in biomedical research
• Train a robust and diverse neuroscience research workforce
• Adopt a culture of evaluation and continuous improvement across all NINDS programs
Launches New Programs• Goal – advance promising therapies to hand off
to biotech/pharma companies– Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational
Efforts (IGNITE)• Early-stage therapy development • Four separate opportunities from assay development to platform
technology development
– Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN) for small molecules
• Development of small molecules• Provides investigators with access to consultants and contracts that
provide discovery, preclinical development, and clinical trial support
– Cooperative Research to Enable and Advance Translational Enterprises (CREATE) Bio and Devices
• Development of biologics (including proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, gene and cell therapies)
• Development of devices (including implants, stents, and prosthetics)
• These programs:– Are milestone driven
– Offer multiple entry points and seamless path of support across the therapy development pipeline
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StrokeNet:
Decreasing the Burden of Stroke
• Increase trial efficiency Decreases time to finish studies
• Balanced, prioritized set of early phase and phase 3 trials in prevention, treatment and recovery.
• Improved research man/woman power in stroke research.Provides stable funding for research effort, fellowship training
• Improved data sharing.Single data center with uniform governance for data access
• Stable infrastructure t
Enables improved team research among different subspecialties.
• Improved ability to work in public-private partnerships with non-profits, industry and international partners.
NeuroNEXT : Network for Excellence in
Neuroscience Clinical Trials
The NeuroNEXT program aims to:
• Provide a robust, standardized, and accessible infrastructure to conduct studies of treatments for neurological diseases
• Create and leverage partnerships with academia, private foundations, and industry
• Increase the efficiency of clinical trials
• Support scientifically sound, possibly biomarker-informed, exploratory clinical trials that provide data for clear go/no-go decisions
• Expand the pool of experienced clinical investigators and research staff
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The BRAIN InitiativeSM:
A Focus on Circuits and NetworksThe disability that patients with neuro/mental/substance
abuse disorders suffer is a direct result of disordered brain
circuits.
We need to be able to see the circuits in action to:• Determine how to therapeutically modulate brain activity
• Understand how the brain forms memories and how this changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
• Improve motor control in Parkinson’s Disease
• Target rehabilitation therapy to improve recovery after brain injury
Goal: do this with the precision of individual circuits and at
the speed of thought.
“The Next Great American Project”
“So there is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked, and
the BRAIN Initiative will change that by giving scientists the tools
they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and
better understand how we think and how we learn and how we
remember. And that knowledge could be – will be –
transformative.”
~President Obama, April 2, 2013
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“New directions in science are launched by new tools
much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a
concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new
ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover
new things that have to be explained.”
Freeman Dyson (1997) Imagined Worlds
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Where Does Scientific Progress Come From?
Original axial CT image form Siretom
CT scanner circa 1975. Physicians
were fascinated by the ability to see
the brain and ventricles for the first
time.
1974 2012
7 Tesla MRI brain scan (NINDS)
The BRAIN InitiativeSM:
Imaging the Brain, What ‘s Next?
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• “Chemogenetics” - allows modulation of firing rates of specific neuronal groups induced to express an engineered receptor that is activated only by administering a drug (systemically).
• Used to improved social behavior in animal model of autism by increasing firing rate of oxytocin-producing neurons in hypothalamus
Courtesy of Brian Roth, UNC
The BRAIN InitiativeSM DREADD: Designer Receptors
Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs
Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and
Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
• Pre-clinical and clinical testing of new devices for
invasive neuromodulation
• UH2/UH3 phased awards (separate UH3
announcement to allow direct-to-clinical projects)
• Necessary first studies that precede follow-on
investment from Industry/Venture Capital for final
system
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To map the circuits of the brain, measure the
fluctuating patterns of electrical and chemical
activity flowing within those circuits, and
understand how their interplay creates our
unique cognitive and behavioral capabilities.
The BRAIN InitiativeSM:
A Focus on Circuits and Networks
NOT-OD-15-103: Enhancing Reproducibility
through Rigor and Transparency
Four areas of clarification:
• Scientific premise
• Rigorous experimental
design
• Consideration of
relevant biological
variables, such as sex
• Authentication of Key
Biological and/or
Chemical Resources
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NINDS Bridging the Gaps
PhD
MD
Resident/
Fellow
Junior
Staff
Independent
Investigator
PhD and
MD/PhD
Fellowships
R25 and Stroke Net Training
K08/K 23
K02
RO1
Loan
Repaymen
t
NINDS R25:
Research support for residents and fellowsNeurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology Neuropathology,
Neuroanasthesia and Emergency Medicine
● Institutional award started in 2009
● 25 institutional programs now funded
● Supports research by residents; these
residents can continue to receive support
into fellowship
● Over 81 residents supported so far
● 32 supported for 2 years
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NINDS K to R01 transition
For K’s terminating 2003-2011 (N =189 K08s, 110 K23s)
42% of all K08s got R01s
53% of all K08s that applied got R01s
40% of all K23s got R01s58% of all K23s that applied got R01s
For both K08s and K23s, ~75% have post-K independent funding
K08 and K23
• 5 years, 75% protected time (salary/fringe)
• $50,000 research costs
• Invited to 2 NINDS/ANA workshops over 5 years
• Goal is independent research career
• Can apply for R01 at any time
• Applicant success rate = ~55%
• Must be US citizen or permanent resident
• NINDS does not have a payline for K awards
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NINDS Clinician K-to-R Transition
Data Source: K awards terminating 2003-11
Number of Unique K23
Applications
Number of Unique K08
Applications
Are NINDS K Awardees Still Doing Research?
For K awards terminating 2003-2008
(N = 114 K08s, 65 K23s)
Currently in Academic Position
K08s: 86% K23s: 88%
Published between 2010-May 2012
K08s: 88% K23s: 85%
In Academic Position and Published
K08s: 95% K23s: 96%
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ESI/NI Benefit at NINDS
%tile funded
Established NI/ESI
2007 9 >25
2008 10 >25
2009 11 20 / 30
2010 13 20 / 30
2011 14 20 / 30
2012 15 Up to 25
2013 - 2015 14Up to 20-
25
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Underlying Issues• Poor training
• Poor evaluation
• Perverse reward incentives
Principles for Addressing these Issues
1. Raise community awareness
2. Enhance formal training
3. Improve the evaluation of applications
4. Protect the integrity of science by adoption of more systematic review processes
5. Increase stability for investigators
Enhancing Reproducibility and Transparency of Research Findings
Questions?
Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D.
Acting Director
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke