VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Form 990, tax year 2019

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Organization
VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (EIN 52-2000823)
Tax period
2019-12-01 to 2020-11-30
Filed
2021-10-14
IRS object ID
202112879349302036
Schema version
2019v5.2
Source
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Every field in the e-filed return. Faint text is the IRS element name, for citing.

Return header ReturnHeader

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Return2021-10-14T15:17:56-05:00ReturnTs
Tax Period End2020-11-30TaxPeriodEndDt

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Preparer Firm EIN861065772PreparerFirmEIN

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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1DELOITTE TAX LLPBusinessNameLine1Txt

Preparer US Address PreparerUSAddress

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Address Line150 SOUTH SIXTH STREET SUITE 2800AddressLine1Txt
CityMINNEAPOLISCityNm
State AbbreviationMNStateAbbreviationCd
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Return Type990ReturnTypeCd
Tax Period Begin2019-12-01TaxPeriodBeginDt

Filer Filer

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EIN522000823EIN

Business Name BusinessName

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name ControlVANABusinessNameControlTxt
Phone6162345000PhoneNum

US Address USAddress

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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CityGRAND RAPIDSCityNm
State AbbreviationMIStateAbbreviationCd
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Business Officer BusinessOfficerGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
PersonTIMOTHY J MYERSPersonNm
Person TitleVICE PRESIDENT & CFOPersonTitleTxt
Phone6162345368PhoneNum
Signature2021-10-14SignatureDt
Discuss With Paid PreparerYes (1)DiscussWithPaidPreparerInd

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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Preparer PersonANNE FULTONPreparerPersonNm
PTINP00941863PTIN
Phone6123974000PhoneNum
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Build TS2022-09-23 18:48:47ZBuildTS

Form 990 IRS990

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Principal OfficerTIMOTHY J MYERSPrincipalOfficerNm

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CityGRAND RAPIDSCityNm
State AbbreviationMIStateAbbreviationCd
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Gross Receipts$89,082,168GrossReceiptsAmt
Group Return For Affiliates0GroupReturnForAffiliatesInd
Organization501c3Yes (X)Organization501c3Ind
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Type Of Organization TrustYes (X)TypeOfOrganizationTrustInd
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Legal Domicile StateMILegalDomicileStateCd
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CY Other Revenue$8,263,465CYOtherRevenueAmt
PY Total Revenue$86,360,028PYTotalRevenueAmt
CY Total Revenue$88,891,678CYTotalRevenueAmt
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Total Liabilities EOY$453,494,619TotalLiabilitiesEOYAmt
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Net Assets Or Fund Balances EOY-$163,865,474NetAssetsOrFundBalancesEOYAmt
Info In Schedule O Part IIIYes (X)InfoInScheduleOPartIIIInd
MissionMEDICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IS AN INDEPENDENT BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND ENHANCING THE LIVES OF CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.MissionDesc
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Schedule B RequiredYes (1)ScheduleBRequiredInd
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Lobbying ActivitiesYes (1)LobbyingActivitiesInd
Subject To Proxy Tax0SubjectToProxyTaxInd
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Conservation Easements0ConservationEasementsInd
Collections Of Art0CollectionsOfArtInd
Credit Counseling0CreditCounselingInd
Donor Rstr Or Quasi EndowmentsYes (1)DonorRstrOrQuasiEndowmentsInd
Report Land Building EquipmentYes (1)ReportLandBuildingEquipmentInd
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Report Other AssetsYes (1)ReportOtherAssetsInd
Report Other LiabilitiesYes (1)ReportOtherLiabilitiesInd
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Grants To IndividualsYes (1)GrantsToIndividualsInd
Schedule J RequiredYes (1)ScheduleJRequiredInd
Tax Exempt BondsYes (1)TaxExemptBondsInd
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Election Of Board MembersYes (1)ElectionOfBoardMembersInd
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Local Chapters0LocalChaptersInd
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Document Retention PolicyYes (1)DocumentRetentionPolicyInd
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Phone6162345368PhoneNum

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Form990 Part VII Section A Form990PartVIISectionAGrp (16 entries)

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DAVID VAN ANDEL
CHAIRMAN / CEO36.0017.00Yes (X)Yes (X)$520,256$0$156,846
DR GEORGE VANDE WOUDE
TRUSTEE1.000.00Yes (X)$9,000$0$0
DR JAMES FAHNER
TRUSTEE1.001.00Yes (X)$7,000$2,200$0
DR MAX WICHA
TRUSTEE1.000.00Yes (X)$13,000$0$0
DR MICHELLE LEBEAU
TRUSTEE1.000.00Yes (X)$8,000$0$0
DR TOM DEMEESTER
TRUSTEE1.000.00Yes (X)$9,000$0$0
DR JANA HALL
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER52.001.00Yes (X)$463,709$0$145,389
TIMOTHY MYERS
V.P. & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER50.003.00Yes (X)$344,197$0$99,590
DR PETER JONES
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER & RES. DIR.52.001.00$752,533$0$235,728Yes (X)
THOMAS CURRAN JR
GENERAL COUNSEL50.003.00$276,743$0$80,596Yes (X)
GERALD CALLAHAN
CHIEF STRATEGIC OFFICER51.002.00$381,738$0$125,592Yes (X)
KATHY VOGELSANG
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER45.000.00$742,294$0$438,840Yes (X)
DR PATRIK BRUNDIN
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH DIRECTOR45.000.00$529,770$0$117,375Yes (X)
DR PETER LAIRD
DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR45.000.00$431,975$0$74,632Yes (X)
TED HEILMAN
ASSOC DIRECT-SR. PORTFOLIO MGR.45.000.00$418,301$0$262,994Yes (X)
DR GERD PFEIFER
SR. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR45.000.00$384,927$0$47,603Yes (X)
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Total Comp Greater Than150 KYes (1)TotalCompGreaterThan150KInd
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HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP
COLUMBIA SQUARE 555 THIRTEENTH STWASHINGTONDC20004ATTORNEY SERVICES$523,385
DE LAGE LANDEN FIN SVCS INC
1111 OLD EAGLE SCHOOL ROADWAYNEPA19087FINANCING SERVICES$359,793
ALLIED UNIVERSAL SECURITY SVCS
PO BOX 828854PHILADELPHIAPA191828854SECURITY SERVICES$301,714
SECURALARM SYSTEMS INC
112 54TH STREET SWGRAND RAPIDSMI49548SECURITY SERVICES$190,424
ANDY J EGAN COMPANY INC
2001 WALDORF NW STE 200GRAND RAPIDSMI49544MAINTENANCE SERVICES$189,566
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DescRESEARCH BILLED REVDesc
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Gross Rents GrossRentsGrp

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Real$108,000RealAmt

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Gain Or Loss GainOrLossGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Net Income From Gaming NetIncomeFromGamingGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Gross Sales Of Inventory$11,896GrossSalesOfInventoryAmt
Cost Of Goods Sold$3,641CostOfGoodsSoldAmt

Net Income Or Loss NetIncomeOrLossGrp

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Other Revenue Misc OtherRevenueMiscGrp (3 entries)

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ALLOCATED ADMIN. EXP.561000$7,725,025$7,725,025
GAIN ON C3 ACQUISIT.900099$213,714$213,714
REIMBURSED EXPENSES900099$137,588$137,588

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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Revenue Total$8,283,714OtherRevenueTotalAmt

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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Exclusion$8,700,842ExclusionAmt

Grants To Domestic Orgs GrantsToDomesticOrgsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$1,900,745TotalAmt
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Grants To Domestic Individuals GrantsToDomesticIndividualsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$512,748TotalAmt
Program Services$512,748ProgramServicesAmt

Comp Current Ofcr Directors CompCurrentOfcrDirectorsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Management And General$2,397,114ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Other Salaries And Wages OtherSalariesAndWagesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Management And General$11,415,396ManagementAndGeneralAmt
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Pension Plan Contributions PensionPlanContributionsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Management And General$939,588ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$37,155FundraisingAmt

Other Employee Benefits OtherEmployeeBenefitsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Program Services$2,644,467ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$1,262,143ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$49,910FundraisingAmt

Payroll Taxes PayrollTaxesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Program Services$1,551,001ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$740,257ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$29,273FundraisingAmt

Fees For Services Legal FeesForServicesLegalGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Program Services$85,382ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$1,471,326ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Fees For Services Accounting FeesForServicesAccountingGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$128,809TotalAmt
Management And General$128,809ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Fees For Services Lobbying FeesForServicesLobbyingGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$96,000TotalAmt
Management And General$96,000ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Fees For Services Other FeesForServicesOtherGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$4,276,977TotalAmt
Program Services$2,962,202ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$1,304,562ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$10,213FundraisingAmt

Advertising AdvertisingGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Program Services$4,694ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$851,686ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$124,743FundraisingAmt

Office Expenses OfficeExpensesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$196,114TotalAmt
Program Services$33,411ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$162,590ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$113FundraisingAmt

Information Technology InformationTechnologyGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$376,019TotalAmt
Program Services$153,140ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$197,754ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$25,125FundraisingAmt

Royalties RoyaltiesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$371TotalAmt
Management And General$371ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Occupancy OccupancyGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$2,537,460TotalAmt
Program Services$1,977,941ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$559,361ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$158FundraisingAmt

Travel TravelGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
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Program Services$123,562ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$80,134ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$15,644FundraisingAmt

Conferences Meetings ConferencesMeetingsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$80,578TotalAmt
Program Services$44,778ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$35,800ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Interest InterestGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$8,726,165TotalAmt
Program Services$6,699,249ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$2,026,916ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Depreciation Depletion DepreciationDepletionGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$11,763,681TotalAmt
Program Services$10,030,415ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$1,733,266ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Insurance InsuranceGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$630,655TotalAmt
Program Services$314,944ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$315,711ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Other Expenses OtherExpensesGrp (4 entries)

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FED / STATE INCOME TAX$44,223$44,223
LAB SUPPLIES & SERVICES$5,029,175$5,029,175
EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE$4,015,146$1,734,692$2,279,055$1,399
OTHER SCIENTIFIC$982,042$982,042

All Other Expenses AllOtherExpensesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$2,394,185TotalAmt
Program Services$1,076,513ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$1,308,506ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$9,166FundraisingAmt

Total Functional Expenses TotalFunctionalExpensesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$94,429,770TotalAmt
Program Services$64,841,145ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General$28,806,205ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising$782,420FundraisingAmt

Savings And Temp Cash Invst SavingsAndTempCashInvstGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$5,389,037BOYAmt
EOY$963,154EOYAmt

Pledges And Grants Receivable PledgesAndGrantsReceivableGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$5,035,192BOYAmt
EOY$4,442,322EOYAmt

Accounts Receivable AccountsReceivableGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$3,713,866BOYAmt
EOY$3,727,182EOYAmt

Oth Notes Loans Receivable Net OthNotesLoansReceivableNetGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$1,565,997BOYAmt
EOY$1,493,561EOYAmt

Inventories For Sale Or Use InventoriesForSaleOrUseGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$261,785BOYAmt
EOY$689,899EOYAmt

Prepaid Expenses Defrd Charges PrepaidExpensesDefrdChargesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$1,722,950BOYAmt
EOY$1,988,548EOYAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Land Bldg Equip Cost Or Other Bss$301,703,323LandBldgEquipCostOrOtherBssAmt
Land Bldg Equip Accum Deprec$131,229,621LandBldgEquipAccumDeprecAmt

Land Bldg Equip Basis Net LandBldgEquipBasisNetGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$178,838,822BOYAmt
EOY$170,473,702EOYAmt

Investments Other Securities InvestmentsOtherSecuritiesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$6,450,853BOYAmt
EOY$6,250,777EOYAmt

Other Assets Total OtherAssetsTotalGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$71,320,000BOYAmt
EOY$99,600,000EOYAmt

Total Assets TotalAssetsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$274,298,502BOYAmt
EOY$289,629,145EOYAmt

Accounts Payable Accr Expnss AccountsPayableAccrExpnssGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$90,870,304BOYAmt
EOY$113,769,230EOYAmt

Deferred Revenue DeferredRevenueGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$3,282,648BOYAmt
EOY$3,488,051EOYAmt

Tax Exempt Bond Liabilities TaxExemptBondLiabilitiesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$219,744,537BOYAmt
EOY$219,755,485EOYAmt

Other Liabilities OtherLiabilitiesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$91,688,848BOYAmt
EOY$116,481,853EOYAmt

Total Liabilities TotalLiabilitiesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$405,586,337BOYAmt
EOY$453,494,619EOYAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Organization Follows FASB117Yes (X)OrganizationFollowsFASB117Ind

No Donor Restriction Net Assets NoDonorRestrictionNetAssetsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY-$137,956,356BOYAmt
EOY-$169,411,355EOYAmt

Donor Restriction Net Assets DonorRestrictionNetAssetsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$6,668,521BOYAmt
EOY$5,545,881EOYAmt

Total Net Assets Fund Balance TotalNetAssetsFundBalanceGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY-$131,287,835BOYAmt
EOY-$163,865,474EOYAmt

Tot Liab Net Assets Fund Balance TotLiabNetAssetsFundBalanceGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
BOY$274,298,502BOYAmt
EOY$289,629,145EOYAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Info In Schedule O Part XIYes (X)InfoInScheduleOPartXIInd
Reconcilation Revenue Expnss-$5,538,092ReconcilationRevenueExpnssAmt
Net Unrlzd Gains Losses Invst$51,845NetUnrlzdGainsLossesInvstAmt
Other Changes In Net Assets-$27,091,392OtherChangesInNetAssetsAmt
Method Of Accounting AccrualYes (X)MethodOfAccountingAccrualInd
Accountant Compile Or Review0AccountantCompileOrReviewInd
FS AuditedYes (1)FSAuditedInd

FS Audited Basis FSAuditedBasisGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Consolidated Basis Fincl StmtYes (X)ConsolidatedBasisFinclStmtInd
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Audit CommitteeYes (1)AuditCommitteeInd
Federal Grant Audit RequiredYes (1)FederalGrantAuditRequiredInd
Federal Grant Audit PerformedYes (1)FederalGrantAuditPerformedInd

Schedule A IRS990ScheduleA

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Medical Research OrganizationYes (X)MedicalResearchOrganizationInd

Hospital Name And Address HospitalNameAndAddressGrp

Supported Organization Name SupportedOrganizationName

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1SPECTRUM HEALTHBusinessNameLine1Txt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
CityGRAND RAPIDSCityNm
State AbbreviationMIStateAbbreviationCd

Schedule B IRS990ScheduleB

Contributor Information ContributorInformationGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
ContributorRESTRICTEDContributorNum

Contributor Business Name ContributorBusinessName

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1RESTRICTEDBusinessNameLine1

Contributor US Address ContributorUSAddress

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Address Line1RESTRICTEDAddressLine1
Address Line2RESTRICTEDAddressLine2
CityRESTRICTEDCity
StateRESTRICTEDState
ZIP CodeRESTRICTEDZIPCode
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total ContributionsRESTRICTEDTotalContributionsAmt

Schedule C IRS990ScheduleC

Total Direct Lobbying TotalDirectLobbyingGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$96,000FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Total Lobbying Expend TotalLobbyingExpendGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$96,000FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Other Exempt Purpose Expend OtherExemptPurposeExpendGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$94,333,770FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Total Exempt Purpose Expend TotalExemptPurposeExpendGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$94,429,770FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Lobbying Nontaxable Amount LobbyingNontaxableAmountGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$1,000,000FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Grassroots Nontaxable GrassrootsNontaxableGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$250,000FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Tot Lbbyng Grassroot Mns Non Tx TotLbbyngGrassrootMnsNonTxGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$0FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Tot Lbby Expend Mns Lbbyng Non Tx TotLbbyExpendMnsLbbyngNonTxGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Filing Organizations Total$0FilingOrganizationsTotalAmt

Avg Lobbying Nontaxable Amount AvgLobbyingNontaxableAmountGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Year Minus3$1,000,000CurrentYearMinus3Amt
Current Year Minus2$1,000,000CurrentYearMinus2Amt
Current Year Minus1$1,000,000CurrentYearMinus1Amt
Current Year$1,000,000CurrentYearAmt
Total$4,000,000TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Lobbying Ceiling$6,000,000LobbyingCeilingAmt

Avg Total Lobbying Expend AvgTotalLobbyingExpendGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Year Minus3$96,000CurrentYearMinus3Amt
Current Year Minus2$96,000CurrentYearMinus2Amt
Current Year Minus1$96,000CurrentYearMinus1Amt
Current Year$96,000CurrentYearAmt
Total$384,000TotalAmt

Avg Grassroots Nontaxable AvgGrassrootsNontaxableGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Year Minus3$250,000CurrentYearMinus3Amt
Current Year Minus2$250,000CurrentYearMinus2Amt
Current Year Minus1$250,000CurrentYearMinus1Amt
Current Year$250,000CurrentYearAmt
Total$1,000,000TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grassroots Ceiling$1,500,000GrassrootsCeilingAmt

Schedule D IRS990ScheduleD

CY Endwmt Fund CYEndwmtFundGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance$723,759BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions$15,000ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses$51,845InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Other Expenditures$177OtherExpendituresAmt
End Year Balance$790,427EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus1 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus1YrEndwmtFundGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance$626,264BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions$45,000ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses$54,479InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Other Expenditures$1,984OtherExpendituresAmt
End Year Balance$723,759EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus2 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus2YrEndwmtFundGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance$666,302BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions$10,100ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses$12,604InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Other Expenditures$62,742OtherExpendituresAmt
End Year Balance$626,264EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus3 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus3YrEndwmtFundGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance$612,777BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses$61,326InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Other Expenditures$7,801OtherExpendituresAmt
End Year Balance$666,302EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus4 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus4YrEndwmtFundGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Contributions$596,343ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses$18,408InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Other Expenditures$1,974OtherExpendituresAmt
End Year Balance$612,777EndYearBalanceAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Prmnnt Endowment Balance EOY1.00000PrmnntEndowmentBalanceEOYPct
Endowments Held Unrelated Org0EndowmentsHeldUnrelatedOrgInd
Endowments Held Related OrgYes (1)EndowmentsHeldRelatedOrgInd
Related Org List Sch RYes (1)RelatedOrgListSchRInd

Land LandGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$5,288,315OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Book Value$5,288,315BookValueAmt

Buildings BuildingsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$230,031,218OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$79,080,268DepreciationAmt
Book Value$150,950,950BookValueAmt

Leasehold Improvements LeaseholdImprovementsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$101,150OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$101,150DepreciationAmt
Book Value$0BookValueAmt

Equipment EquipmentGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$63,475,432OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$51,952,294DepreciationAmt
Book Value$11,523,138BookValueAmt

Other Land Buildings OtherLandBuildingsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$2,807,208OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$95,909DepreciationAmt
Book Value$2,711,299BookValueAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Land Buildings$170,473,702TotalBookValueLandBuildingsAmt

Other Assets Org OtherAssetsOrgGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
DescPLEDGED SECURITIESDesc
Book Value$99,600,000BookValueAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Other Assets$99,600,000TotalBookValueOtherAssetsAmt

Other Liabilities Org OtherLiabilitiesOrgGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
DescUNREALIZED LOSS ON INTEREST RATE SWAPDesc
Amt$116,481,853Amt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Liability$116,481,853TotalLiabilityAmt
Footnote TextYes (X)FootnoteTextInd
Total Rev Etc Audited Fincl Stmt$81,110,900TotalRevEtcAuditedFinclStmtAmt
Net Unrealized Gains Invst$51,845NetUnrealizedGainsInvstAmt
Other Revenue-$99,642OtherRevenueAmt
Revenue Not Reported-$47,797RevenueNotReportedAmt
Revenue Subtotal$81,158,697RevenueSubtotalAmt
Other Revenues Not Included$7,732,981OtherRevenuesNotIncludedAmt
Revenue Not Reported Fincl Stmt$7,732,981RevenueNotReportedFinclStmtAmt
Total Revenue Per Form990$88,891,678TotalRevenuePerForm990Amt
Tot Expns Etc Audited Fincl Stmt$113,688,539TotExpnsEtcAuditedFinclStmtAmt
Other Expenses Included$26,991,750OtherExpensesIncludedAmt
Expenses Not Reported$26,991,750ExpensesNotReportedAmt
Expenses Subtotal$86,696,789ExpensesSubtotalAmt
Other Expenses Not Included$7,732,981OtherExpensesNotIncludedAmt
Expenses Not Rpt Fincl Stmt$7,732,981ExpensesNotRptFinclStmtAmt
Total Expenses Per Form990$94,429,770TotalExpensesPerForm990Amt

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (7 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
PART X, LINE 2:PART X, LINE 1(1) AND LINE 2: THERE ARE NO UNCERTAIN TAX POSITIONS RELATED TO VARI.
PART XI, LINE 2D - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:RENTAL EXPENSES 109,961. FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSE 56,986. ROYALTIES PAYOUT -371. ADDITIONAL IMPAIRMENT -266,743. GAMING EXPENSE 525.
PART XI, LINE 4B - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:NET ALLOCATED 7,725,025. BAD DEBT ADJUSTMENT 7,956.
PART XII, LINE 2D - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:RENTAL EXPENSES 109,961. FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSE 56,986. LOSS ON INTEREST RATE SWAP 27,091,392. ROYALTIES PAYOUT -371. ADDITIONAL IMPAIRMENT -266,743. GAMING EXPENSE 525.
PART XII, LINE 4B - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:NET ALLOCATED 7,725,025. BAD DEBT ADJUSTMENT 7,956.
PART VVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE (A RELATED ORGANIZATION) MAINTAINS ENDOWED FUNDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH VARI AND VAN ANDEL EDUCATION INSTITUTE (A RELATED ORGANIZATION) TO FUND OPERATING EXPENSES.
PART XI AND XII, LINE 4BEXPENSE ALLOCATIONS PRESENTED WITHIN REVENUE.

Schedule F IRS990ScheduleF

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (1)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Account Activities Outside US AccountActivitiesOutsideUSGrp (3 entries)

RegionRegionTxtOfficesOfficesCntEmployeeEmployeeCntType Of Activities ConductedTypeOfActivitiesConductedTxtSpecific Services ProvidedSpecificServicesProvidedTxtRegion Total ExpendituresRegionTotalExpendituresAmt
EUROPE00PROGRAM SERVICESRESEARCH COLLABORATION - RESEARCH SERVICES, GUEST SPEAKING$136,402
EUROPE00FUNDRAISING$3,550
NORTH AMERICA00PROGRAM SERVICESGUEST SPEAKING$5,000
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Subtotal Offices0SubtotalOfficesCnt
Subtotal Employees0SubtotalEmployeesCnt
Continuation Total Office0ContinuationTotalOfficeCnt
Continuation Total Employee0ContinuationTotalEmployeeCnt
Total Office0TotalOfficeCnt
Total Employee0TotalEmployeeCnt
Subtotal Spent$144,952SubtotalSpentAmt
Continuation Spent$0ContinuationSpentAmt
Total Spent$144,952TotalSpentAmt
Transfer To Foreign Corp0TransferToForeignCorpInd
Interest In Foreign Trust0InterestInForeignTrustInd
Foreign Corp Ownership0ForeignCorpOwnershipInd
Passive Foreign Investmest Co0PassiveForeignInvestmestCoInd
Foreign Partnership0ForeignPartnershipInd
Boycott Countries0BoycottCountriesInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (2 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
PART I, LINE 2:GRANT FUNDS ARE MONITORED BY QUARTERLY EXPENDITURE REPORTS BEFORE DISBURSING INCREMENTAL FUNDING. PROGRESS REPORTS ARE REQUIRED ANNUALLY AND REVIEWED BY VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND A THIRD PARTY.
PART III ACCOUNTING METHOD:

Schedule G IRS990ScheduleG

Fundraising Event Information FundraisingEventInformationGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Event1SOUTHSIDEEvent1Nm
Gross Receipts Event1$51,753GrossReceiptsEvent1Amt
Charitable Contri Event1$50,376CharitableContriEvent1Amt
Gross Revenue Event1$1,377GrossRevenueEvent1Amt
Other Direct Expenses Event1$16,038OtherDirectExpensesEvent1Amt
Event2NYC MARATHONEvent2Nm
Gross Receipts Event2$16,559GrossReceiptsEvent2Amt
Charitable Contri Event2$16,559CharitableContriEvent2Amt
Other Direct Expenses Event2$17,727OtherDirectExpensesEvent2Amt
Other Events Total2OtherEventsTotalCnt
Gross Receipts Other Events$22,604GrossReceiptsOtherEventsAmt
Charitable Contri Other Events$20,689CharitableContriOtherEventsAmt
Gross Revenue Other Events$1,915GrossRevenueOtherEventsAmt
Oth Direct Expnss Other Events$8,712OthDirectExpnssOtherEventsAmt
Gross Receipts Total$90,916GrossReceiptsTotalAmt
Charitable Contributions Tot$87,624CharitableContributionsTotAmt
Gross Revenue Total Events$3,292GrossRevenueTotalEventsAmt
Oth Direct Expnss Total Events$42,477OthDirectExpnssTotalEventsAmt
Direct Expense Summary Events$42,477DirectExpenseSummaryEventsAmt
Net Income Summary-$39,185NetIncomeSummaryAmt

Schedule I IRS990ScheduleI

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (1)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Recipient Table RecipientTable (3 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1TxtCityUSAddress/CityNmState AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCdZIPUSAddress/ZIPCdRecipient EINRecipientEINIRC SectionIRCSectionDescCash GrantCashGrantAmtPurpose Of GrantPurposeOfGrantTxt
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
535 CHESTNUT ROAD ROOM 300EAST LANSINGMI48824386005984501C3$5,245SUPPORT FOR TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FUND
STAND UP TO CANCER
10880 WILSHIRE BLVD SUITE 1400LOS ANGELESCA90024951644609501C3$1,875,000RESEARCH COLLABORATION
FRIENDS OF CRESCENT PARK
333 BOSTWICK AVENUE NEGRAND RAPIDSMI49503264562012501C3$20,500SUPPORT MAINTENANCE OF CRESCENT PARK
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total501c3 Org3Total501c3OrgCnt
Total Other Org0TotalOtherOrgCnt

Grants Other Asst To Indiv In US GrantsOtherAsstToIndivInUSGrp (5 entries)

Grant TypeGrantTypeTxtRecipientRecipientCntCash GrantCashGrantAmtNon Cash AssistanceNonCashAssistanceAmtNon Cash AssistanceNonCashAssistanceDesc
GRADUATE STUDENT STIPENDS FOR MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS1$46,638
GRADUATE STUDENT STIPENDS VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE GRADUATE SCHOOL9$100,650
FOREIGN NATIONAL STIPENDS3$71,000
GUEST WORKER STIPENDS6$72,377
VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE GRADUATE SCHOOL STUDENT TUITION AND FEES REMISSION31$222,083TUITION REMISSION.

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Form And Line ReferencePART I, LINE 2:FormAndLineReferenceDesc
ExplanationSTUDENTS RECEIVE A STIPEND FOR LIVING EXPENSE AND INSURANCE. GRANT FUNDS TO INSTITUTIONS ARE MONITORED BY QUARTERLY EXPENDITURE REPORTS BEFORE DISBURSING INCREMENTAL FUNDING. PROGRESS REPORTS ARE REQUIRED ANNUALLY AND REVIEWED BY VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND A THIRD PARTY.ExplanationTxt

Schedule J IRS990ScheduleJ

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
First Class Or Charter TravelYes (X)FirstClassOrCharterTravelInd
Written Policy Ref T And E ExpnssYes (1)WrittenPolicyRefTAndEExpnssInd
Substantiation RequiredYes (1)SubstantiationRequiredInd
Compensation CommitteeYes (X)CompensationCommitteeInd
Independent ConsultantYes (X)IndependentConsultantInd
Compensation SurveyYes (X)CompensationSurveyInd
Board Or Committee ApprovalYes (X)BoardOrCommitteeApprovalInd
Severance Payment0SeverancePaymentInd
Supplemental Nonqual Rtr Plan0SupplementalNonqualRtrPlanInd
Equity Based Comp Arrngm0EquityBasedCompArrngmInd
Comp Based On Revenue Of Flng OrgYes (1)CompBasedOnRevenueOfFlngOrgInd
Comp Bsd On Rev Related Orgs0CompBsdOnRevRelatedOrgsInd
Comp Bsd Net Earns Flng Org0CompBsdNetEarnsFlngOrgInd
Comp Bsd Net Earns Rltd Orgs0CompBsdNetEarnsRltdOrgsInd
Any Non Fixed Payments0AnyNonFixedPaymentsInd
Initial Contract Exception0InitialContractExceptionInd

Rltd Org Officer Trst Key Empl RltdOrgOfficerTrstKeyEmplGrp (11 entries)

TitleTitleTxtBase Compensation Filing OrgBaseCompensationFilingOrgAmtCompensation Based On Rltd OrgsCompensationBasedOnRltdOrgsAmtBonus Filing OrganizationBonusFilingOrganizationAmountBonus Related OrganizationsBonusRelatedOrganizationsAmtOther Compensation Filing OrgOtherCompensationFilingOrgAmtOther Compensation Rltd OrgsOtherCompensationRltdOrgsAmtDeferred Compensation Flng OrgDeferredCompensationFlngOrgAmtDeferred Comp Rltd OrgsDeferredCompRltdOrgsAmtNontaxable Benefits Filing OrgNontaxableBenefitsFilingOrgAmtNontaxable Benefits Rltd OrgsNontaxableBenefitsRltdOrgsAmtTotal Compensation Filing OrgTotalCompensationFilingOrgAmtTotal Compensation Rltd OrgsTotalCompensationRltdOrgsAmtComp Report Prior990 Filing OrgCompReportPrior990FilingOrgAmtComp Report Prior990 Rltd OrgsCompReportPrior990RltdOrgsAmt
DAVID VAN ANDEL
CHAIRMAN / CEO$401,538$0$97,500$0$21,218$0$155,750$0$1,096$0$677,102$0$97,500$0
DR JANA HALL
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER$388,026$0$72,109$0$3,574$0$134,549$0$10,840$0$609,098$0$72,109$0
TIMOTHY MYERS
V.P. & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER$296,026$0$46,929$0$1,242$0$88,750$0$10,840$0$443,787$0$46,929$0
DR PETER JONES
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER & RES. DIR.$598,247$0$130,332$0$23,954$0$224,888$0$10,840$0$988,261$0$130,332$0
THOMAS CURRAN JR
GENERAL COUNSEL$256,604$0$17,672$0$2,467$0$69,757$0$10,840$0$357,340$0$0$0
GERALD CALLAHAN
CHIEF STRATEGIC OFFICER$312,589$0$48,907$0$20,242$0$114,752$0$10,840$0$507,330$0$0$0
KATHY VOGELSANG
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER$471,142$0$249,830$0$21,322$0$428,000$0$10,840$0$1,181,134$0$249,830$0
DR PATRIK BRUNDIN
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH DIRECTOR$478,481$0$48,967$0$2,322$0$106,535$0$10,840$0$647,145$0$48,967$0
DR PETER LAIRD
DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR$412,004$0$16,407$0$3,564$0$63,792$0$10,840$0$506,607$0$16,407$0
TED HEILMAN
ASSOC DIRECT-SR. PORTFOLIO MGR.$254,219$0$142,760$0$21,322$0$252,154$0$10,840$0$681,295$0$142,760$0
DR GERD PFEIFER
SR. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR$371,239$0$10,124$0$3,564$0$36,763$0$10,840$0$432,530$0$0$0

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (2 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
PART I, LINE 1AVARI ALLOWS FOR FIRST-CLASS OR CHARTER TRAVEL FOR OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES.
PART I, LINE 5BONUS IS PAID BASED ON VARIABLE PAY PROGRAM OBJECTIVES FOR ELIGIBLE PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.

Schedule K IRS990ScheduleK

Tax Exempt Bonds Issues TaxExemptBondsIssuesGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond ReferenceABondReferenceCd

Issuer Name IssuerName

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1MICHIGAN STRATEGIC FUNDBusinessNameLine1Txt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond Issuer EIN521417332BondIssuerEIN
CUSIP000000000CUSIPNum
Bond Issued2018-10-01BondIssuedDt
Issue Price$220,000,000IssuePriceAmt
PurposeREFUND BOND ISSUE 4/01/13PurposeDesc
Defeased0DefeasedInd
On Behalf Of Issuer0OnBehalfOfIssuerInd
Pool Financing0PoolFinancingInd

Tax Exempt Bonds Proceeds TaxExemptBondsProceedsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond ReferenceABondReferenceCd
Total Proceeds$220,000,000TotalProceedsAmt
Other Spent Proceeds$220,000,000OtherSpentProceedsAmt
Refunding Tax Exempt BondsYes (1)RefundingTaxExemptBondsInd
Refunding Taxable Bonds0RefundingTaxableBondsInd
Final Allocation MadeYes (1)FinalAllocationMadeInd
Adequate Books And Rec MaintYes (1)AdequateBooksAndRecMaintInd

Tax Exempt Bonds Private Bus Use TaxExemptBondsPrivateBusUseGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond ReferenceABondReferenceCd
Owning Bond Financed Property0OwningBondFinancedPropertyInd
Any Lease ArrangementsYes (1)AnyLeaseArrangementsInd
Mgmt Contract Bond Fincd PropYes (1)MgmtContractBondFincdPropInd
Engage Bond Counsel ContractsYes (1)EngageBondCounselContractsInd
Any Research AgreementsYes (1)AnyResearchAgreementsInd
Engage Bond Counsel ResearchYes (1)EngageBondCounselResearchInd
Private Bus Concerning UBI0.00210PrivateBusConcerningUBIPct
Total Private Business Use0.00210TotalPrivateBusinessUsePct
Bond Iss Meet Prvt Sec Pymt Test0BondIssMeetPrvtSecPymtTestInd
Change In Use Bond Financed PropYes (1)ChangeInUseBondFinancedPropInd
Change In Use Bond Financed Prop0.00560ChangeInUseBondFinancedPropPct
Remedial Action Taken0RemedialActionTakenInd
Procs Nonqualified Bond RemdtdYes (1)ProcsNonqualifiedBondRemdtdInd

Tax Exempt Bonds Arbitrage TaxExemptBondsArbitrageGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond ReferenceABondReferenceCd
Form8038 T Filed0Form8038TFiledInd
Rebate Not Due Yet0RebateNotDueYetInd
Exception To Rebate0ExceptionToRebateInd
No Rebate DueYes (1)NoRebateDueInd
Variable Rate IssueYes (1)VariableRateIssueInd
Hedge Identified In Bks And Rec0HedgeIdentifiedInBksAndRecInd
Gross Proceeds Invested In GIC0GrossProceedsInvestedInGICInd
Gross Proceeds Invested0GrossProceedsInvestedInd
Written Proc To Monitor ReqsYes (1)WrittenProcToMonitorReqsInd

Procedures Corrective Action ProceduresCorrectiveActionGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Bond ReferenceABondReferenceCd
Procedures Corrective ActionYes (1)ProceduresCorrectiveActionInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (2 entries)

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DATE REBATE COMPUTATION PERFORMEDISSUER NAME: MICHIGAN STRATEGIC FUND DATE THE REBATE COMPUTATION WAS PERFORMED: 10/01/2018
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FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 2VARI, VAI, VAEI, AND VAIGS SHARE COMMON MANAGEMENT. DAVID VAN ANDEL, DR. JANA HALL AND TIMOTHY MYERS ARE ALSO OFFICERS OF VAI, AND DAVID VAN ANDEL AND TIMOTHY MYERS ARE OFFICERS OF VAEI AND VAIGS. THOMAS CURRAN JR. IS ALSO AN OFFICER OF VAIGS. GERALD CALLAHAN AND THOMAS CURRAN JR. ARE KEY EMPLOYEES OF VAI AND VAEI.
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 2BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP: DAVID VAN ANDEL, GERALD CALLAHAN
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 7ATHE TRUSTEES OF VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ELECT ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF VARI'S GOVERNING BODY.
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11BFOLLOWING COMPLETION OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT AUDIT, THE FORM 990 IS PREPARED AND REVIEWED BY MANAGEMENT. IT IS THEN CIRCULATED TO THE FULL BOARD FOR REVIEW AND COMMENTS PRIOR TO FILING WITH THE IRS.
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12CVARI HAS WRITTEN CONFLICT OF INTEREST ("COI") POLICIES AND PROCEDURES WHICH ADMINISTER AND ENFORCE A PROCESS TO IDENTIFY, EVALUATE, AND MANAGE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. THESE POLICIES HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. VAI ADMINISTERS COI POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THROUGH TWO STANDING COMMITTEES: THE CONFLICTS COMMITTEE ("CC") AND THE INSTITUTIONAL COI COMMITTEE ("ICOIC"). COI POLICIES AND PROCEDURES APPLY TO AND SERVE AS A GUIDE FOR EVERYONE IN THE ORGANIZATION. IN PARTICULAR, THEY PROVIDE A USEFUL RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPING ACTIVITIES OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUTSIDE ENTITIES OR PERSONS, AND ESTABLISH A PROCESS FOR COMMITTEES TO REVIEW AND MANAGE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AS THEY MAY ARISE. THE CC AND ICOIC ARE CHAIRED BY THE GENERAL COUNSEL. THE CC REQUIRES ANNUAL AND UPDATED DISCLOSURES BY COVERED PERSONS AND REVIEWS AND APPROVES MANAGEMENT PLANS. ICOIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES SERVE AS A GUIDE FOR BOARDS OF TRUSTEES AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES. IN THE EVENT A POTENTIAL COI ARISES AT THE BOARD OR SENIOR EXECUTIVE LEVEL, THE ICOIC MEETS TO REVIEW AND DETERMINE HOW TO MANAGE SUCH A POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COI POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15COMPARABILITY DATA FROM AN EXPERT THIRD PARTY IS OBTAINED AND REVIEWED BY THE INDEPENDENT, JOINT COMPENSATION COMMITTEE OF VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TO DETERMINE APPROPRIATE COMPENSATION FOR THE CEO, EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS, OFFICERS, AND KEY EMPLOYEES, ON BEHALF OF VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19ALL DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.
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FORM 990, PART III, LINE 2VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (VARI) IS DEDICATED TO DETERMINING THE EPIGENETIC, GENETIC, MOLECULAR, AND CELLULAR ORIGINS OF CANCER, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, METABOLIC DISORDERS, AND OTHER ILLNESSES AND TO TRANSLATING THOSE FINDINGS INTO EFFECTIVE THERAPIES. THE INSTITUTE'S SCIENTISTS WORK IN ON-SITE LABORATORIES AND PARTICIPATE IN COLLABORATIONS THAT SPAN THE GLOBE. WITH EPIGENETICS AS ITS COMMON THREAD, THE INSTITUTE IS ORGANIZED INTO THE CENTER FOR CANCER AND CELL BIOLOGY, THE CENTER FOR EPIGENETICS, AND THE CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE SCIENCE. THE INSTITUTE'S LABS ARE SUPPORTED BY AN OUTSTANDING CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES GROUP, WHICH PROVIDES A VIVARIUM, A BIOREPOSITORY, AND VALUABLE ON-SITE CAPABILITIES IN BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS, CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, FLOW CYTOMETRY, IMAGING, GENOMICS, METABOLOMICS AND BIOENERGETICS, PATHOLOGY, AND TRANSGENICS. VARI SCIENTISTS PUBLISHED 136 ARTICLES IN THIS FISCAL YEAR IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS THAT INCLUDED NATURE, CELL, CELL REPORTS, ELIFE, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, NATURE STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, CELL METABOLISM, NEUROLOGY, CELL STEM CELL, CANCER CELL, CANCER RESEARCH, MOVEMENT DISORDERS, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, MOLECULAR CELL, CIRCULATION RESEARCH, NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, LANCET NEUROLOGY, ISCIENCE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES U.S.A., ONCOGENE, CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, NEURO-ONCOLOGY, NATURE MATERIALS, BLOOD, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, CYTOMETRY A, TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES, GENOME BIOLOGY, PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, PLOS GENETICS, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE, MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS, GENES, NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE, CELL REPORTS MEDICINE, CRISPR JOURNAL, EMBO REPORTS, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, STRUCTURE, FASEB JOURNAL, CALCIFIED TISSUE INTERNATIONAL, EPIGENETICS AND CHROMATIN, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE, BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, BIOANALYSIS, AND JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS.
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4ALINE 4A - PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITY #1 CENTER FOR CANCER AND CELL BIOLOGY THE CENTER FOR CANCER AND CELL BIOLOGY, DIRECTED BY BART WILLIAMS, PH.D., COMPRISES 14 LABORATORIES ENGAGED IN BASIC RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY AND IN TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ON CANCER, SKELETAL DISEASES, AND METABOLISM AND NUTRITION. THE CENTER IS DIVIDED INTO PROGRAMS IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY; SKELETAL DISEASE AND CANCER THERAPEUTICS; AND METABOLIC AND NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING. IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES WITHIN THE CENTER RECEIVED TWO R01 AWARDS, TWO R35 AWARDS, AN R21 AWARD, AND AN F99 FELLOWSHIP FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. OTHER NEW GRANTS WERE FROM THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS, THE SLOAN FOUNDATION, AND THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION. TWO NON-NIH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS WERE ALSO RECEIVED, FROM THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. THE WILLIAMS LAB PRODUCED SEVERAL STUDIES ON BONE-RELATED ISSUES. A PROJECT ON GALECTIN-3 UNCOVERED THE MECHANISM FOR SEX-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF LOSS OF THIS MOLECULE ON AGING BONE. GALECTIN-3 MAY BE A THERAPEUTIC TARGET AGAINST THE LOSS OF SEX HORMONE PRODUCTION SUCH AS OCCURS FOLLOWING MENOPAUSE IN WOMEN OR IN ANDROGEN DEPLETION THERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS (MAUPIN ET AL., CALCIFIED TISSUE INTERNATIONAL 106(3): 283-293). ANOTHER STUDY RELATED TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE LOST THE FUNCTION OF THE LRP5 PROTEIN; THEY DEVELOP OSTEOPOROSIS AND DEFECTIVE RETINAL VASCULATURE. THE LAB USED CRISPR-CAS9 TECHNOLOGY TO KNOCK OUT THE LRP5 GENE IN RATS, WHICH PROVIDES A NEW MODEL FOR STUDYING THE ROLE OF WNT SIGNALING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BONE AND THE RETINA, AS WELL AS FOR RESEARCH INTO HOW TO TREAT PATIENTS WHO HAVE MUTANT FORMS OF LRP5 (UBELS ET AL., CRISPR JOURNAL 3(4): 284-298). THE LAB ALSO COLLABORATED WITH A JOHNS HOPKINS LABORATORY TO STUDY THE FRIZZLED-4 (FZD4) RECEPTOR PROTEIN. THE DATA SHOWED THAT FZD4 MAY HAVE OVERLAPPING FUNCTIONS WITH FZD8, BUT THAT FZD4 IS REQUIRED FOR NORMAL BONE DEVELOPMENT AND MINERALIZATION (KUSHWAHA ET AL., JOURNAL OF CELL PHYSIOLOGY 235(10): 6673-6683). IN THE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY PROGRAM, THE LI LAB PUBLISHED THE FIRST CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY STRUCTURE OF THE EUKARYOTIC ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM MEMBRANE COMPLEX, WHICH INSERTS PROTEINS THROUGH A MEMBRANE. PART OF THE STRUCTURE RESEMBLES A PROKARYOTIC INSERTASE ENZYME, SHOWING CONSERVATION OF STRUCTURE THROUGHOUT EVOLUTION AND SUGGESTING THAT THEIR ENZYME MECHANISMS MAY BE SIMILAR (BAI ET AL., NATURE 584(7821): 475-478). ANOTHER PAPER REPORTED A HIGH-RESOLUTION STRUCTURE FOR THE EUKARYOTIC CMG HELICASE. DETAILS OF THE STRUCTURE ALLOWED THE AUTHORS TO DESCRIBE HOW THE HELICASE PULLS THE DNA THROUGH A MOLECULAR TUNNEL, ALLOWING IT TO SEPARATE THE TWO DNA STRANDS FOR REPLICATION (YUAN ET AL., NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11: 688). A THIRD PROJECT PRODUCED AN ATOMIC STRUCTURE FOR THE POLYMERASE EPSILON ENZYME, WHICH IS A DIMER OF TWO DIFFERENT POL "MODULES". THE SOLVED STRUCTURE SUGGESTS THAT A FOLD IN THE DBP2 SUBUNIT DIRECTS THE DNA LEADING STRAND FROM THE CMG COMPLEX TO THE POL EPISILON ACTIVE SITE (YUAN ET AL., NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11: 356). THESE LAST TWO PAPERS TOGETHER SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE ATOMIC-LEVEL MECHANISM OF HOW DNA IS REPLICATED IN THE CELL. THE DU AND LU LABS PUBLISHED THREE PAPERS IN THE PRESTIGIOUS JOURNAL NATURE ON THE STRUCTURES OF ION CHANNELS, WHICH ARE PROTEINS THAT ALLOW IONS INTO AND OUT OF CELLS. THEY PUBLISHED STRUCTURES FOR THE HUMAN CALHM2 ION CHANNEL IN AN ACTIVE AND AN INHIBITED STATE. THEY ALSO PROPOSED A GATING MECHANISM FOR CALHM2 IN WHICH THE S1 HELIX COARSELY ADJUSTS, AND THE N-TERMINAL HELIX FINE-TUNES, THE PORE SIZE (CHOI ET AL., NATURE 576(7785): 163-167). PANNEXIN IS A PROTEIN INVOLVED IN BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION AND OTHER IMPORTANT PROCESSES. THE LABS SOLVED THE STRUCTURES OF HUMAN PANNEXIN 1 (PANX1) IN THREE STATES, AT DOWN TO 2.8-ANGSTROM RESOLUTION. THEY WERE ABLE TO DESCRIBE ITS GATING MECHANISM FOR TWO DIFFERENT ION PATHWAYS, AS WELL AS THE ROLE OF CARBENOXOLONE AS A BLOCKER OF THE PANNEXIN CHANNEL (RUAN ET AL., NATURE 584(7822): 646-651). FINALLY, THEY ALSO STUDIED THE PROTON-ACTIVATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL (PAC), WHICH IS INVOLVED IN TISSUE INJURY. THEIR PAPER DESCRIBED THE CHANGES OF PROTEIN CONFORMATION WITH A CHANGE IN PH IN THE CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT, AND ALSO THE MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE THREE PAC SUBUNITS. THESE RESULTS PROVIDE A BASIS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ATOMIC-LEVEL MECHANISMS OF PAC (RUAN ET AL., NATURE 588(7837): 350-354). THE STRUCTURAL LAB OF KARSTEN MELCHER PUBLISHED SEVERAL PAPERS IN COLLABORATION WITH LABS AT VARI AND ELSEWHERE. METHYLTRANSFERASES ARE ENZYMES THAT PLACE METHYL GROUPS ONTO DNA, AN IMPORTANT EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION. THE LABS OF MELCHER AND PETER JONES SOLVED THE STRUCTURES OF TWO SUCH ENZYMES, DNMT3A AND DNMT3B, BOUND TO NUCLEOSOMES. THE STRUCTURES SUGGEST THAT IN ORDER TO ADD THE METHYL GROUP, THE DNA MUST BE MOVED RELATIVE TO THE NUCLEOSOME CORE (XU ET AL., NATURE 586(7827): 151-155). ANOTHER STUDY USED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO DETERMINE HOW THE DRUG FENTANYL BINDS TO THE MU-OPIOID RECEPTOR. THE RESULTS SUGGEST AN ACTIVATION MECHANISM AND PROVIDE A RATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING THE SAFETY PROFILES OF FENTANYL-BASED ANALGESICS (DE WAAL ET AL., PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 16(4): E1007394). THE MELCHER LAB ALSO STUDIED TWO G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS (GPCRS) CALLED CFR1R AND CFR2R, WHICH ARE ACTIVATED BY ENDOCRINE HORMONES AND ARE INVOLVED IN THE BODY'S STRESS RESPONSES. THE PEPTIDE-BINDING AMINO ACIDS IN THESE TWO RECEPTORS DIFFER FROM THOSE IN OTHER CLASS B GPCRS, AND BOTH STRUCTURES HAD BOUND CHOLESTEROL MOLECULES. THIS WORK PROVIDES A MODEL FOR STUDYING THE MEMBRANE PROTEIN-LIPID INTERACTIONS OF CLASS B GPCRS (MA ET AL., MOLECULAR CELL 77(3): 669-680.E4). FINALLY, THEY STUDIED THE CANNABINOID RECEPTOR CB2 AS A TARGET FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS AND FOR TREATING PAIN WITH FEWER SIDE EFFECTS. THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN CB2-G(I) SIGNALING COMPLEX WAS SOLVED WITH A BOUND AGONIST, SHOWING THE BINDING MODE AND HOW CB2 DISTINGUISHES AGONISTS FROM ANTAGONISTS. THIS KNOWLEDGE SHOULD AID IN DEVELOPING MORE-EFFECTIVE DRUGS THAT TARGET THE CANNABINOID SYSTEM (XING ET AL., CELL 180(4): 645-654.E13). IN THE METABOLISM PROGRAM, THE RUSSELL JONES LAB INVESTIGATED THE METABOLIC ADAPTATION OF CANCER CELLS THROUGH THE LIVER KINASE B1-AMPK PATHWAY. THE MICRORNA MIR-17 SENSITIZED LYMPHOMA CELLS TO TREATMENT WITH BIGUANIDES, WHICH STRESS THE CELLS BY INHIBITING THE KREBS CYCLE AND MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION. MIR-17 EXPRESSION MAY BE A BIOMARKER FOR BIGUANIDE SENSITIVITY IN CANCERS (IZREIG ET AL., CELL REPORTS MEDICINE 1(2): 100014). THE LAB ALSO INVESTIGATED THE REASONS FOR AND EFFECTS OF HIGH SERUM ACETATE AT SITES OF INFECTION. THEY FOUND THAT AN ABUNDANCE OF ACETATE IMPROVED PATHOGEN CLEARANCE WHILE REDUCING IMMUNOPATHOLOGY. OVERALL, THE WORK SHOWED THAT AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE, ACETATE HAS DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT EFFECTS WITHIN THE SAME CELL TYPE (BALMER ET AL., CELL METABOLISM 32(3): 457-467.E5). A THIRD PAPER REPORTED THE EFFECTS OF METHOTREXATE ON CELLULAR METABOLISM, ONE OF WHICH WAS AMPK ACTIVATION. THAT ACTIVATION WAS NECESSARY FOR BOTH THE ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE AND PRO-RESPIRATORY EFFECTS OF METHOTREXATE. COMBINING METHOTREXATE WITH THE AMPK ACTIVATOR PHENFORMIN POTENTIATES THE ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY IN CANCER CELLS (PAPADOPOLI ET AL., SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10(1): 7838). THE JONES AND KRAWCZYK LABS COLLABORATED IN A STUDY OF MICRORNA-9 IN THE DENDRITIC CELLS OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT MIR-9 AIDED THE TRANSITION OF DENDRITIC CELLS FROM STEADY STATE TO A MATURE STATE BY AFFECTING THE EXPRESSION OF SEVERAL NEGATIVE REGULATORS OF CELL TRANSCRIPTION, INCLUDING POLYCOMB GROUP FACTOR 6 (CORDEIRO ET AL., CELL REPORTS 21(5): 107585). METHIONINE IS A KEY NUTRIENT AFFECTING EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING IN CD4+ T HELPER (TH) CELLS. A COLLABORATION AMONG THE R. JONES, KRAWCZYK, AND POSPISILIK LABS SHOWED THAT A LACK OF METHIONINE AFFECTED THE PROMOTER REGIONS OF GENES INVOLVED IN THE PROLIFERATION OF INFLAMMATORY TH17 CELLS AND CYTOKINE PRODUCTION. IN A MOUSE MODEL OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, LACK OF DIETARY METHIONINE LED TO REDUCED T CELL-MEDIATED NEUROINFLAMMATION AND DISEASE ONSET. METHIONINE RESTRICTION MAY BE A USEFUL INTERVENTION FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS SUCH AS MS (ROY ET AL., CELL METABOLISM 31(2): 250-266.E9). FINALLY, THE STEENSMA LAB STUDIED KINASE ENZYME INHIBITION IN MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMORS USING CAPMATINIB, TRAMETINIB, OR DOXORUBICIN TREATMENT. THEY FOUND BROAD AND REDUNDANT KINOME ADAPTATIONS, SHOWING THAT THESE TUMORS ARE CAPABLE OF PROFOUND SIGNALING PLASTICITY IN THE FACE OF SUCH TREATMENTS. SOME OF THE DATA SUGGEST THAT TARGETING AXL OR MFKB MAY LESSEN THE RESISTANCE TO THESE THERAPIES (GRIT ET AL., GENES 11(3): 331).
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4BLINE 4B - PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITY #2 CENTER FOR EPIGENETICS THE CENTER, ESTABLISHED IN 2014 AND NOW DIRECTED BY J. ANDREW POSPISILIK, PH.D., HAS 10 LABORATORIES STUDYING EPIGENETICS, EPIGENOMICS, AND THE ROLE OF EPIGENETIC DYSFUNCTION IN CANCER, NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, AND VIRAL TRANSCRIPTION. NEW GRANT AWARDS IN THIS FISCAL YEAR FOR CENTER RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES INCLUDED AN R01 AND AN R21 FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, AS WELL AS AN NIH GRANT SUB-AWARD. THE LAB OF PETER JONES CONDUCTED A STUDY OF THE WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCES OF 53 ORGANISMS, AND THEY SHOWED A POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SIZE OF A GENOME AND THE PERCENTAGE OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS (TES) IT CONTAINS. THE METHYLATION OF THE DNA OF SUCH ELEMENTS ALLOWS FOR THEIR LONG-TERM RESIDENCE IN THE GENOME, AND THEIR ACCUMULATION LEADS TO AN INCREASE IN GENOME SIZE. IT ALSO LEADS TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR GENE CONTROL BY TE-BASED REGULATORY SITES (ZHOU ET AL., PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USA 117(32): 19359-19366). ANOTHER PROJECT LOOKED AT THE USE OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITORS AS DRUGS FOR TREATING HEMATOLOGIC CANCERS. IN RESPONSE TO THIS TREATMENT, MALIGNANT CELLS SHOWED THE ACTIVATION OF NEWER TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS OF SEVERAL KINDS, AND CELL CULTURES SHOWED THE ACTIVATION OF SIX GENES IN THE TYPE I IFN PATHWAY. THUS, THE TES ELICITED AN IMMUNE REACTION THAT MAY BE IMPORTANT IN THE PATIENT'S RESPONSE TO THERAPY (OHTANI ET AL., CANCER RESEARCH 80(12): 2441-2450). THE ROTHBART LAB'S RESEARCH INVOLVES THE GAIN AND LOSS OF METHYL GROUPS ADDED TO DNA AND THE FUNCTION OF THOSE CHANGES. THE LIGASE UHRF1 IS KNOWN TO HELP MAINTAIN ABNORMAL DNA METHYLATION IN CANCER CELLS. THE LAB INVESTIGATED THIS ENZYME'S ACTIVITY AND THE PATTERN OF DNA METHYL GROUPS IN A VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS, WHICH SHOWED THAT UHRF1 SELECTIVELY IDENTIFIES SPECIFIC METHYLATION POSITIONS ON BOTH DNA AND HISTONE PROTEINS. THEY ALSO FOUND THAT THE READER ACTIVITY OF THE UHRF1 TANDEM TUDOR DOMAIN IS DISPENSABLE FOR MAINTAINING DNA METHYLATION IN CANCER CELLS (VAUGHAN ET AL., EPIGENETICS AND CHROMATIN 13: 44). THE LAB HAS DEVELOPED A HIGH-THROUGHPUT BINDING ASSAY TO SHOW THE SEQUENCE DETERMINANTS OF METHYLLYSINE-DRIVEN PROTEIN INTERACTIONS. THEY ALSO USED IT TO IDENTIFY THE BINDING LOCALES OF HISTONE ANTIBODIES AND FOUND THAT ONLY A FEW AMINO ACIDS DRIVE EPITOPE RECOGNITION. THIS ASSAY WILL BE A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR FUTURE STUDIES OF METHYLLYSINE-DRIVEN PROTEIN INTERACTIONS (KUPAI ET AL., FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 8: 241). IN A THIRD PAPER, THE LAB DESCRIBED A NEW MODEL DEFINING CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (CHIP-SEQ) TECHNOLOGY, AND THEY EXPLORED THE MODEL'S IMPLICATIONS FOR THE USE OF EXOGENOUS ADDITIVES (SPIKE-INS) WITH CHIP-SEQ. THEY IDENTIFIED A NEW SENSITIVITY ISSUE THAT LIMITS THE UTILITY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SPIKE-INS. THIS PROMISES TO BE A VALUABLE STEP IN IMPROVING THE WIDELY USED CHIP-SEQ TECHNOLOGY (DICKSON ET AL., JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 295(47): 15826-15837). FINALLY, THEY COLLABORATED IN A PROJECT LOOKING AT THE RAPID TRANSCRIPTION OF SELECT GENES IN RESPONSE TO CUES SUCH AS THE SENSING OF PATHOGENS BY MACROPHAGES. THE AUTHORS PROPOSE THAT FEATURES OF THE HISTONE H3.3 PROVIDE PREFERENTIAL ACCESS TO THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL MACHINERY, AND THAT DEDICATED MECHANISMS ENABLE RAPID TRANSCRIPTION INVOLVING H3.3, ITS PHOSPHORYLATION, AND BOTH THE RECRUITMENT AND EJECTION OF CHROMATIN REGULATORS (ARMACHE ET AL., NATURE 583(7818): 852-857). THE SHI LAB TOOK PART IN A STUDY REPORTING THAT WNT ACTIVATION STABILIZES THE EPIGENETIC REGULATOR PROTEIN KDM4C, WHICH PROMOTES TUMORIGENESIS AND AIDS THE SURVIVAL OF HUMAN GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS. WNT-KDM4C-BETA-CATENIN SIGNALING REPRESENTS A NEW MECHANISM FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION OF WNT TARGET GENES AND THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS, AND IT HAS IMPORTANT CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THIS CANCER (CHEN ET AL., CANCER RESEARCH 80(5): 1049-1063). A SECOND PAPER LOOKED AT THE HUMAN ENZYME HERC2, WHICH IS LINKED TO NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND CANCER. A DETAILED STRUCTURE OF THE ENZYME'S ZZ DOMAIN WAS SOLVED, SHOWING THE NEGATIVELY CHARGED SITE OF THAT DOMAIN HAS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE ENZYME'S INTERACTIONS. THE ZZ DOMAIN MAY PLAY A ROLE IN THE ASSOCIATION OF HERC2 WITH CHROMATIN (LIU ET AL., STRUCTURE 28(11): 1225-1330.E3). ANOTHER PAPER FROM THE LAB LOOKED INTO CHANGES FOUND IN AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA. THE DATA SUPPORT A CRUCIAL ROLE OF THE FUSION PROTEIN NUP98-PHF23 IN DRIVING LEUKEMOGENESIS. THEY HIGHLIGHT A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN LEUKEMIC TRANSFORMATION AND THE ABILITIES OF NUP98-PHD FINGER CHIMERAS TO ASSOCIATE WITH H3K4ME3 METHYLATION SITES ON CHROMATIN (ZHANG ET AL., NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11: 3339). THESE STUDIES ALL ADD TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF CANCER. THE LAIRD LAB CONTRIBUTED TO A PHASE 1 TRIAL OF TRC102 IN COMBINATION WITH TEMOZOLOMIDE FOR PATIENTS WHO HAD REFRACTORY SOLID TUMORS. OF 52 PATIENTS, FOUR HAD PARTIAL RESPONSES AND 13 HAD A BEST RESPONSE OF STABLE DISEASE. THE COMBINATION TREATMENT IS ACTIVE, AND THE SIDE-EFFECT PROFILE IS MANAGEABLE (COYNE ET AL., ONCOTARGET 11(44): 3959-3971). ANOTHER PAPER STUDIED TEN ESTIMATION METHODS FOR TUMOR PURITY IN A COHORT OF 333 PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS. THE DATA SHOWED POOR CONCORDANCE BETWEEN PATHOLOGIC AND MOLECULAR PURITY ESTIMATES. THUS, THE CHOICE OF TUMOR PURITY ESTIMATION METHOD MAY HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE INTERPRETATION OF GENOMIC ASSAYS, HIGHLIGHTING A NEED FOR IMPROVED WAYS TO ASSESS TUMOR PURITY (HAIDER ET AL., JCO PRECISION ONCOLOGY 4: 995-1005). THE SHEN LAB TOOK PART IN A PHASE II CLINICAL TRIAL OF METFORMIN AGAINST EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER. METFORMIN WAS WELL TOLERATED, AND TREATED TUMORS SHOWED INCREASED SENSITIVITY TO CISPLATIN EX VIVO. IT ALTERED THE METHYLATION SIGNATURE OF CARCINOMA-ASSOCIATED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS, PREVENTING CHEMORESISTANCE IN VITRO. THE STUDY SUPPORTS THE USE OF METFORMIN IN PHASE II STUDIES (BROWN ET AL., JCI INSIGHT 5(11): E1332247). THE SHEN AND TRICHE LABS BOTH CONTRIBUTED TO A STUDY OF UTERINE FIBROIDS. SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES WAS OBSERVED FOR CERVICAL STROMA OR UTERINE FIBROIDS COMPARED WITH NORMAL MYOMETRIUM. THESE ANALYSES SHOW A POSSIBLE ROLE OF DNA METHYLATION IN FIBROID BIOLOGY, AND THEY SUGGEST THAT HOMEOTIC TRANSFORMATION OF MYOMETRIAL CELLS TO A MORE CERVICAL STROMA PHENOTYPE COULD BE AN IMPORTANT MECHANISM IN THE DISEASE (GEORGE ET AL., CELL REPORTS 29(12): 4069-4085.E6). STEFAN JOVINGE'S LAB HELPED EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF S100A9 BLOCKADE ON POST-ISCHEMIC CARDIAC REPAIR. SEVEN DAYS OF TREATMENT WERE BENEFICIAL, BUT 21 DAYS OF BLOCKADE LED TO DETERIORATION OF CARDIAC FUNCTION IN MICE. THUS, THERE IS A THERAPEUTIC WINDOW FOR OPTIMAL EFFECT OF THIS TREATMENT IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (MARINKOVIC ET AL., CIRCULATION RESEARCH 127(5): 664-676). IN ANOTHER STUDY, THE LAB COLLABORATED IN A STUDY OF THE CO-CULTURE OF CARDIOMYOCYTES AND SYMPATHETIC NEURONS, BOTH DERIVED FROM HUMAN-INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS. THE DATA SHOWED THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICALLY FUNCTIONAL SYMPATHETIC NEURONS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF MODULATING THE BEATING RATE OF THE CARDIOMYOCYTES IN VITRO. THESE HUMAN CELL CO-CULTURES PROVIDE A NOVEL MULTICELLULAR MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF NEUROCARDIAC MODULATION UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS (WINBO ET AL., AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY - HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY 319(5): H927-H937). THE POSPISILIK LAB COAUTHORED A PAPER SHOWING THAT MACROPHAGES CAN MAINTAIN INSULIN SECRETION IN VIVO FOLLOWING BETA-CELL DEATH, WITH NO EFFECTS ON ISLET CELL TURNOVER. IGF-1 NEUTRALIZATION DURING STREPTOZOTOCIN TREATMENT DECREASED INSULIN SECRETION WITHOUT AFFECTING ISLET CELL APOPTOSIS OR PROLIFERATION. A HIGH-FAT DIET PLUS STZ FURTHER SKEWED ISLET MACROPHAGES TO A REPARATIVE STATE (NACKIEWICZ ET AL., ISCIENCE 23(1): 100775). THE LAB ALSO COLLABORATED IN RESEARCH INTO ADHESION G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS IN ADIPOSE TISSUE. THE PROJECT CONCLUDED THAT ADHESION GPCRS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY INVOLVED IN QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE LIPID ACCUMULATION IN ADIPOCYTES AND CAN CONTROL LIPOLYSIS. FACTORS DRIVING ADIPOCYTE FORMATION AND FUNCTION ARE GOVERNED BY SIGNALING PATHWAYS INDUCED BY ADHESION GPCRS, SUGGESTING THAT THESE RECEPTORS ARE POTENTIAL TARGETS FOR TREATING OBESITY (SUCHY ET AL., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY 44(10): 2124-2136).
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4CLINE 4C - PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITY #3 CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE SCIENCE THE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2012 UNDER DIRECTOR PATRIK BRUNDIN, M.D., PH.D. IN 2020, IT HAD NINE LABORATORIES STUDYING PARKINSON'S DISEASE, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, AND BRAIN INFLAMMATION. THE NEWEST LABORATORY, THAT OF MICHAEL HENDERSON, PH.D., FOCUSES ON THE PATHOGENESIS AND POTENTIAL THERAPIES FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES. CENTER RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR RECEIVED FIVE R01S AND AN R21 FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, TWO AWARDS FROM THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION AND THREE FROM THE ASAP COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK, AND A SUBAWARD FROM THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION. A POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP WAS ALSO RECEIVED FROM THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION. THE LENA BRUNDIN LAB EXPLORED THE INCREASED INFLAMMATION REPORTED IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD), WHICH MAY BE DRIVEN BY VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. WHILE 25(OH)D LEVELS DID NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFER IN MDD VS. CONTROLS, LOWER 25(OH)D WAS ASSOCIATED WITH INDICES OF IMMUNE ACTIVATION IN MDD, ESPECIALLY IN CASES WITH SUICIDAL IDEATION. THE FINDINGS ARE CONSISTENT WITH RELATIVELY LOW 25(OH)D LEVELS IN MDD BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A PRO-INFLAMMATORY STATE (GRUDET ET AL., JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS 267: 33-41). ANOTHER STUDY FOCUSED ON TRYPTOPHAN (TRP) METABOLITES IN THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF), WHICH MAY BE MODULATORS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISEASE. THE LAB SHOWED THE FEASIBILITY OF BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF CSF TRP METABOLITES, INCLUDING THE SEPARATION OF PICOLINIC ACID FROM NICOTINIC ACID. THEY ALSO CONFIRMED PRIOR FINDINGS OF ABERRANT CSF QUINOLINIC ACID AND PICOLINIC ACID IN SUICIDE ATTEMPTERS (SCHWIELER ET AL., BIOANALYSIS 12(6): 379-392). THE LABS OF PATRIK AND LENA BRUNDIN COLLABORATED IN LOOKING AT TRYPTOPHAN METABOLITES IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE PATIENTS. PD SUBJECTS HAD OVER 100% HIGHER 3-HYDROXYKYNURENINE AND 14% LOWER 3-HYDROXYANTHRANILIC ACID CONCENTRATIONS IN THEIR PLASMA. OVERALL, KYNURENINE PATHWAY METABOLITES WERE ALTERED IN PD PATIENTS IN BOTH THE PERIPHERY AND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND THESE CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH SYMPTOM SEVERITY (HEILMAN ET AL., MOVEMENT DISORDERS 35(11): 2028-2037). THE PATRIK BRUNDIN LAB EVALUATED THE SMELLING FUNCTION OF MICE AFTER INJECTING ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN PREFORMED FIBRILS INTO THE OLFACTORY BULB. NO OVERT IMPAIRMENTS IN SNIFFING ABILITY WERE EVIDENT. AT ALL TIME POINTS, FEMALES HAD A REDUCED ABILITY TO DETECT ODORS IN A PLETHYSMOGRAPHY TEST. THIS SENSITIVE METHOD COULD BE USED TO DEFINE HOW ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN PATHOLOGY AFFECTS OTHER ASPECTS OF OLFACTORY PERCEPTION AND TO CLARIFY THE NEUROPATHOLOGICAL BASIS OF THESE DEFICITS (JOHNSON ET AL., SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10(1): 9242). A SECOND SET OF EXPERIMENTS FOUND PATHOLOGY IN BOTH THE OLFACTORY BULB AND THE PIRIFORM CORTEX OF MICE INJECTED WITH ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN FIBRILS. THE MICE DISPLAYED ABERRANTLY HIGH ODOR-EVOKED POWER IN THE BETA SPECTRAL RANGE. NO SIMILAR CHANGE WAS FOUND IN THE PIRIFORM CORTEX, DESPITE HIGH LEVELS OF PATHOLOGY. THESE RESULTS PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT SYNUCLEINOPATHY AFFECTS NEURAL ACTIVITY IN THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM AT THE NETWORK LEVEL (KULKARNI ET AL., JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 10(4): 1411-1427). A THIRD PAPER REPORTED THE INJECTION OF FIVE CONFORMATIONAL STRAINS OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN INTO THE OLFACTORY BULB OF FEMALE MICE. EACH STRAIN PROPAGATED PATHOLOGY THROUGH THE CENTRAL NERVOUS IN DISTINCT PATTERNS. THE DATA SUPPORT THE VIEW THAT THE CONFORMATIONS OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN ASSEMBLIES MAY UNDERLIE DIFFERENT PROPAGATION PATTERNS WITHIN THE HUMAN BRAIN (REY ET AL., ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS 7:221). THE MOORE LAB STUDIED THE LRRK2 KINASE ENZYME AND IDENTIFIED ITS FUNCTION IN REGULATING MEMBRANE FUSION AT THE TRANS-GOLGI NETWORK, INFLUENCING BOTH RETROGRADE AND POST-GOLGI TRAFFICKING PATHWAYS. ITS ACTION IS EXAGGERATED BY MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND CAN BE BLOCKED BY KINASE INHIBITORS. DISRUPTION OF THE GARP PROTEIN COMPLEX SENSITIZES DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS TO MUTANT LRRK2 TOXICITY IN C. ELEGANS, SHOWING THAT THESE PATHWAYS ARE INTERLINKED IN VIVO AND SUGGESTING A LINK IN PD (BEILINA ET AL., CELL REPORTS 31(5): 107614). THE LAB ALSO DEVELOPED A ROBUST PRECLINICAL MODEL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE IN ADULT RATS HAVING NEURON-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF HUMAN LRRK2 BEARING THE G2019S MUTATION, WHICH INDUCES ROBUST DEGENERATION OF SUBSTANTIA NIGRA DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS. THIS MODEL SHOWED THAT SUCH NEURODEGENERATION REQUIRES NORMAL GTPASE AND KINASE ACTIVITY. INHIBITION OF THE KINASE AND ALTERATION OF GTPASE ACTIVITY MAY BE PROMISING AS DISEASE-MODIFYING TARGETS (NGUYEN ET AL., PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USA 117(29): 17296-17307). THE LAB ALSO PUBLISHED TWO REVIEWS, ONE ON THE FUNCTIONS OF LRRK2 WITH THE ENDOLYSOSOMAL PATHWAY (ERB AND MOORE, JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 10(4): 1271-1291) AND ANOTHER ON THE LINKAGE BETWEEN LRRK2 AND PROTEIN AGGREGATION IN ANIMAL MODELS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE (DUES AND MOORE, FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE 14:719). THE GUERREIRO AND BRAS LABS COLLABORATED ON PROJECTS IN SEVERAL DIVERSE AREAS. THE KCNN2 GENE IS HIGHLY EXPRESSED IN THE HUMAN BRAIN. ONE OF THEIR PAPERS REPORTED A MISSENSE MUTATION IN THAT GENE WHICH TRACKED WITH THE CHILDHOOD-ONSET TREMORS CHARACTERISTIC OF MYOCLONUS-DYSTONIA. THIS IS THE FIRST SUGGESTION THAT KCNN2 MUTATIONS COULD BE A PLAUSIBLE CAUSE OF THIS DISEASE (BALINT ET AL., EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY 27(8): 1471-1477). THE LABS ALSO PUBLISHED THE RESULTS OF WHOLE-EXOME SEQUENCING OF A COHORT OF 1118 CAUCASIAN PATIENTS WHO HAD DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES (DLB); THEY FOCUSED ON GENES THAT CAUSE MONOGENIC NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES. THE RARITY OF PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PATHOGENIC MUTATIONS IN THIS COHORT SUGGESTS THAT THE GENETIC OVERLAP BETWEEN OTHER NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND DLB IS NOT SUBSTANTIAL (ORME ET AL. ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS 8(1): 5). A THIRD PAPER IDENTIFIED A NOVEL HOMOZYGOUS MISSENSE MUTATION OF THE MYELIN-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN (MAG) IN A PORTUGUESE FAMILY WITH EARLY-ONSET, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE, CEREBELLAR ATAXIA WITH NEUROPATHY AND OCULOMOTOR APRAXIA. THE MUTATION REDUCED PROTEIN STABILITY, IMPAIRED THE PROTEIN'S GLYCOSYLATION, AND CHANGED ITS SUBCELLULAR LOCATION. THIS MUTATION THUS PROVIDES A NEW DIAGNOSTIC MARKER FOR HEREDITARY OCCURRENCES OF THIS DISEASE (SANTOS ET AL., JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE 9(4): 1212). THEY ALSO WORKED ON A STUDY OF GENETIC FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA, USING AN INTERNATIONAL, RETROSPECTIVE COHORT OF 3403 INDIVIDUALS FROM 1492 FAMILIES. IT SHOWED THAT THE AGE AT SYMPTOM ONSET AND AT DEATH OF PATIENTS IS INFLUENCED BY THEIR GENETIC GROUP, BY THE SPECIFIC MUTATION CARRIED, AND BY FAMILY MEMBERSHIP. THE DATA SUGGEST THAT STUDYING OTHER MEMBERS OF A FAMILY WILL BE HELPFUL ONLY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MUTATIONS OF THE MAPT GENE. (MOORE ET AL., LANCET NEUROLOGY 19(2): 145-156). THE LABRIE LAB REPORTED THAT NEURONS IN THE HUMAN PREFRONTAL CORTEX HAVE HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES IN DNA METHYLATION LARGELY MEDIATED BY DIFFERENTIAL CPH METHYLATION. THE ASYMMETRY IS GREATER IN NEURONS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE PATIENTS THAN IN HEALTHY CONTROLS. THESE DIFFERENCES MAY AFFECT THE PROGRESSION AND SYMPTOMS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE (LI ET AL., GENOME BIOLOGY 21: 61). IN ANOTHER PAPER, THE LABRIE, COETZEE, AND JOVINGE LABS FOUND A WIDESPREAD INCREASE IN CYTOSINE METHYLATION AT THE ENHANCER LOCI IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE NEURONS. PARKINSON'S PATIENTS SHOWED AN INCREASE IN TET2 GENE ACTIVITY, WHICH IS A MASTER REGULATOR OF CYTOSINE MODIFICATIONS. DECREASED TET2 ACTIVITY IS NEUROPROTECTIVE IN MICE AND MAY BE A NEW THERAPEUTIC AVENUE AGAINST PARKINSON'S DISEASE (WEILAND ET AL., NATURE NEUROSCIENCE 23(10): 1203-1214).
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