On 19 August, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative) announced that applications had opened for the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize, a USD 1 million global competition designed to accelerate breakthrough discoveries in Alzheimer's and dementia research. The AD Data Initiative calls on researchers, technologists, and innovators to leverage agentic AI – AI that can plan, reason, and act autonomously – to generate a leap in the pace, scale, and reach of Alzheimer's research. From hypothesis generation to dataset harmonisation to experimental design, their belief is that this technology can create exciting opportunities in research. They welcome applicants and multi-disciplinary teams from a wide variety of backgrounds, including AI and ML engineering, computational biology, ADRD research, clinicians and clinical trial experts, technologists and pharmaceutical sciences. Up to eight semi-finalist teams will be selected to present at a pitch event around the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) Conference in December 2025. Up to three finalist teams will be invited to a final "show and prove” event around the AD/PD Conference in March 2026. The winning AI tool will be made publicly available via AD Data Initiative’s AD Workbench, a free, secure, cloud-based research environment that allows scientists around the world to share, access and analyse data across platforms. Submissions deadline is 12 September. Find out more and apply, via:
https://www.alzheimersdata.org/alzinsights-prize-for-adrd-research