The National Institutes of Health hosted a meeting earlier this month as leaders in Alzheimer’s and other diseases met in Bethesda, Maryland, for the AD Research Summit 2015. The first such meeting since the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease was put into action in 2012, the summit served to spur the field on toward the goal of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer’s by 2025. Over the two-day meeting, researchers proposed ways of finding therapeutic targets outside of the familiar Aβ and tau fields. Data sharing was a big theme for this goal. Speakers also weighed in on how to enlarge patient cohorts, capture better phenotypic data, engage minority communities, and harness citizen science to analyze vast quantities of data.