Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Program for Common Metabolic Diseases (AMP® CMD)
NIDDK Participation in NIH’s Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Program
NIDDK is the NIH partner in the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® program for Common Metabolic Diseases (AMP® CMD). Partnering with biopharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations, this new public-private partnership, managed through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), is aimed at identifying promising new targets for six common metabolic diseases: nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, kidney diseases, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes/prediabetes, and type 1 diabetes.
NIDDK-funded projects will leverage existing genomic association data and integrate new functional genomic data to achieve the following:
- Systematic identification of causal variants at genomic loci associated with common metabolic diseases
- Prioritization of likely effector transcripts functioning at associated genomic loci
- Validation of the role of effector transcripts in disease phenotypes in relevant tissues and cell types
- Generation of pathway networks that incorporate effector transcripts and other genes to clarify their roles in metabolic diseases and to identify common pathways across the diseases
- Creation of data analysis tools to increase usability of large scale functional genomic data generated
- Make all data and analytical tools generated accessible for public use via the online CMD Knowledge Portal
About AMP CMD
AMP CMD brings together four biopharmaceutical companies with four teams of NIDDK-funded investigators, including a Knowledge Portal team and Data Coordinating Center. The consortium will capitalize on the enormous amounts of existing genomic data and will generate new largescale molecular data to achieve a deep understanding of genes and pathways that underlie metabolic diseases. Using this information, the consortium will identify and integrate datasets to identify potential biotargets and new therapeutic targets.
AMP CMD Partners
Government
- NIH - NIDDK
Industry
- Amgen
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Novo Nordisk
- Pfizer Inc.
Non-profit Organization
- Foundation for the NIH
Funding Opportunities
NIDDK has solicited participation through the following funding opportunities for AMP
- Limited Competition for the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) in Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal (RFA-DK-19-505)
- Understanding the Functional Contributions and Mechanisms of Type 2 Diabetes Disease-associated Variants (RFA-DK-19-012)
About NIH's AMP initiative
The Accelerating Medicines Partnership program is a public-private partnership that incorporates NIH, FDA, biopharmaceutical and life science companies, and non-profit organizations across multiple disease-focused projects. The goal of the partnership in each project is to accelerate the identification of new diagnostics and therapies through expertise and resources shared among partners.
The NIH AMP Program Type 2 Diabetes was active from 2014 to 2021 and its outcomes are now part of AMP CMD.
Accelerating Medicines Partnership and AMP are registered service marks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NIDDK Program Staff
- Beena Akolkar, Ph.D. Clinical research in the prevention and immunopathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes and the genetics and genomics of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
- Norann Zaghloul, Ph.D. Genetics and genomics of Type 2 diabetes and functional genomic studies in Type 2 diabetes and metabolic diseases
Recent Funding Opportunities
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Cellular Models of HIV Pathogenesis within NIDDK Mission Areas (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Research Resource for Human Organs and Tissues (U42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Analysis of Existing Linked Datasets to Understand the Relationship between Housing Program Participation and Risk for Chronic Diseases and Other Conditions (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): HEAL Initiative: Development and Translation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices via Blueprint MedTech
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