The Foundation supports research across basic, translational and clinical science to speed breakthroughs that can lead to the creation of new treatments and a better quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease.
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Previously funded studies appear chronologically, with the most recent appearing first.
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Research Grant, 2022Extending Assessment of WATCH-PD Remote Digital Technology
Study Rationale: Digital tools can provide objective, sensitive, real-world measures of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Better measures could lead to more efficient, patient-centric and timely evaluation of...
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Research Resources Imaging Program, 2022Developing Actionable Machine Learning (AML) Methods for Diagnosing, Monitoring and Treating Parkinson’s Disease
Study Rationale: In today’s modern age of computational smart health, actionable machine learning (AML) methods automatically and progressively learn how to correctly answer queries about the state of...
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Novel PET Tracer Development Program, 2022Discovery of Novel Radiolabeled Tracers for Imaging Microglia Associated with Neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease
Study Rationale: Parkinson´s disease (PD) is associated with neuroinflammation and the activation of microglia, cells that belong to the brain’s immune system. A protein called Colony stimulating...
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Research Grant, 2022Creation and Testing of a Combined Cognitive Score in Parkinson Disease
Study Rationale: Many different tests of memory and thinking are given to people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), but it is not clear how to use or combine these test scores to best detect early...
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Cellular Phenotyping in Human iPSCS from the PPMI Cohort, 2022Defining Mechanisms in Different Brain Cells that Drive Progression in Parkinson’s Disease
Study Rationale: The death of dopamine-producing neurons is the defining feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD), leading to the motor symptoms characteristic of the disorder. Given this obvious...
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Research Grant, 2022Assessing the Aggregation of Alpha-synuclein in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Study Rationale: A growing body of evidence suggests that Parkinson’s disease (PD) may begin in the stomach or elsewhere along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract before spreading to the brain. If this...
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