Congratulations to 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Giovanni Bellomo for his role in the development and clinical validation of two new assays for DOPA decarboxylase, a potentially promising biomarker for PD/Lewy body disorders.
Check out the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Summer Student Fellowship and Visiting Scholar Award applications are due on MONDAY! 😮
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📢 New from the Parkinson’s Foundation blog! 🧠
Discover how researchers at the University of Michigan are mapping the brain to unravel Parkinson’s disease and drive breakthroughs in understanding and treatment.
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At the Parkinson’s Foundation, we remain dedicated to advancing equity in health and Parkinson’s disease care. Learn how we’re working toward a more inclusive future for all: Parkinson.org/about-us/vision-mission/diversity-equity-inclusion
🕙The clock is ticking!🕤 Summer Student Fellowship and Visiting Scholar Award applications are due in less than 2 weeks!! 😱
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Applications close in JUST ONE WEEK for our Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award! 😱
For more information and to apply, click the link below!
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2025 was a remarkable year for the Parkinson’s Foundation!
With your support, we launched new initiatives & vital PD resources, stayed fast in our commitment to improving PD care & research, and empowered the community through education & resources.
Parkinson.org/blog/awareness/2025-milestones
🎓Are you an undergrad student, medical student, PhD student, or a postdoctoral fellow in pursuit of Parkinson's-related research projects? If so, you should apply for our Summer Student Fellowships or Visiting Scholar Awards!
▶️Applications are due 1/26, apply now: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...
👀 Did you know that the Parkinson’s Foundation is now accepting applications for our Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award?
Applications close on January 12th, get those apps in!
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Awardee, Hikaru Kamo from the University of Florida, whose project focuses on artificial intelligence-based deep brain stimulation programming for #Parkinsons disease.
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📣Introducing our 2025 Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Awardee! This 1-year award is jointly supported by the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (IAPRD) and is designed to foster clinical research into any aspect of PD conducted by young investigators.
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Katherine Surridge from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, whose project focuses on determining #Parkinsons disease-associated LRRK2’s cellular function using designer small molecules.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Pamela Marcott from the University of California San Francisco, whose project focuses on dissecting neural circuits regulating sleep fragmentation in #Parkinsons disease.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Jonggeol Kim from the Baylor College of Medicine, whose project focuses on using causal pivot model and AI to identify novel PD risk variants.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Xiaolin Huang from the University of California Berkeley, whose project focuses on dopamine dynamics and sleep deficits in #Parkinsons disease.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Yujie Fan from the California Institute of Technology, whose project focuses on self-assembling synuclein induces Parkinsonian pathology in vitro and in vivo.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Tatyana Bodrug from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, whose project focuses on mechanisms of LRRK2 activation in #Parkinsons disease-associated lysosome disfunction.
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📣Introducing our 2025 Postdoctoral Fellows! This two-year fellowship supports young scientists fresh from their PhD training or neurology residencies. This year we funded 6 Postdoctoral Fellowships for a total of $860k.
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awardee, Dr. Jacob Simmering from the University of Iowa, whose project focuses on identifying sentinel diagnoses to improve the detection of prodromal and early #Parkinsons disease.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awardee, Dr. Lauren Hammer from the University of Pennsylvania, whose project focuses on subcortical stimulation-entrained gamma oscillations for adaptive deep brain stimulation in #Parkinsons disease.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awardee, Dr. Jared Cregg from the University of Wisconsin, whose project focuses on modulating brainstem networks for effortless locomotor coordination in #Parkinsons disease.
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📣Introducing our 2025 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awardees! This award acts as a bridge to ensure promising early-career scientists stay in the #Parkinsons research field, helping us solve, treat, and end the disease. This year we funded 3 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awards for a total of $900k.
The Parkinson's Foundation is celebrating a significant milestone! Our landmark genetics study, PD GENEration, has enrolled 30,000 participants. 🧬
PD GENEration offers genetic testing and counseling, at no cost, to people living with Parkinson's disease in more than 8 countries. (1/3)
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Wilma van de Berg from the Amsterdam University Medical Center, whose project focuses on scrutinizing cellular shuttling in #Parkinsons disease.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Paolo Moretti from the University of Utah, whose project focuses on identifying candidate #Parkinsons disease predisposition genes in multi-generational high-risk pedigrees.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Patrick Lewis from the Royal Veterinary College, whose project focuses on defining the impact of the LRRK2 G2385R variant.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Simone Engelender from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, whose project focuses on a novel peptide strategy to prevent a-synuclein accumulation and aggregation in #PD and #DLB.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Sirwan Darweesh from the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, whose project focuses on slowing #Parkinsons early through exercise dosage.
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📢 Congratulations to 2025 Trailblazer Awardee, Dr. Jay Alberts from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, whose project focuses on utilizing AI to realize the value of skin biopsy phosphorylated alpha-synuclein in early diagnosis of #Parkinsons disease.
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📣Introducing our 2025 Trailblazer Awardees! The Parkinson’s Foundation Trailblazer Award was designed to fund researchers for innovative projects that bring new light to the biology of #Parkinsons or test novel therapeutic ideas. This year we funded 7 Trailblazer Awards, for a total of $1.1 million.