Parkinson's Foundation Research
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The Parkinson's Foundation knows that a research breakthrough can happen at any time & believes in educating our PD community with the latest research updates.
https://www.parkinson.org/advancing-research
https://www.parkinson.org/advancing-research
2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Jeroen Habets traveled all the way from Germany to present his work on understanding and treating dyskinesia at #SfN2025.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Jeroen Habets traveled all the way from Germany to present his work on understanding and treating dyskinesia at #SfN2025.
Another excellent trainee from @bdemira.bsky.social lab, Ashley Adamson, presenting her research at #SfN2025.
🚨Ashley is looking for postdoc opportunities!
🚨Ashley is looking for postdoc opportunities!
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Another excellent trainee from @bdemira.bsky.social lab, Ashley Adamson, presenting her research at #SfN2025.
🚨Ashley is looking for postdoc opportunities!
🚨Ashley is looking for postdoc opportunities!
2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee Teel Walters, from the lab of @bdemira.bsky.social, discussing some of the cool data she collected working in Alison Bernstein's lab this past summer. Perfect collaboration on an awesome project! #SfN2025
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee Teel Walters, from the lab of @bdemira.bsky.social, discussing some of the cool data she collected working in Alison Bernstein's lab this past summer. Perfect collaboration on an awesome project! #SfN2025
2024 Summer Student Fellowship awardee Navya Gullapalli presenting her work looking at new roles for astrocytes in PD risk. Awesome work! #SfN2025
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
2024 Summer Student Fellowship awardee Navya Gullapalli presenting her work looking at new roles for astrocytes in PD risk. Awesome work! #SfN2025
2025 Summer Student Fellowship Awardee Negar Nasrkhani, who works closely with 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow Amitabh Bhattacharya, presenting her work at #SfN2025. Nice collaboration between two PF-funded awardees!
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
2025 Summer Student Fellowship Awardee Negar Nasrkhani, who works closely with 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow Amitabh Bhattacharya, presenting her work at #SfN2025. Nice collaboration between two PF-funded awardees!
We were also honored to have our Chief Training and Education Officer Eli Pollard highlight the upcoming 2026 World Parkinson's Congress in Phoenix. It will be an incredible event--register, if you haven't already!
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We were also honored to have our Chief Training and Education Officer Eli Pollard highlight the upcoming 2026 World Parkinson's Congress in Phoenix. It will be an incredible event--register, if you haven't already!
It was wonderful to see both some familiar faces and new faces in the PD field. @bdemira.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It was wonderful to see both some familiar faces and new faces in the PD field. @bdemira.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Jingjing Lin, whose project focuses on assessing retinal biomarkers in #Parkinsons Disease. Jingjing will be mentored by Jane Alty at the University of Tasmania.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Jingjing Lin, whose project focuses on assessing retinal biomarkers in #Parkinsons Disease. Jingjing will be mentored by Jane Alty at the University of Tasmania.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Wim Versées from the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, whose project focuses on validation of nanobody- and peptide-based chaperones for Glucocerebrosidase as a novel therapeutic strategy to fight #Parkinsons disease.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Wim Versées from the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, whose project focuses on validation of nanobody- and peptide-based chaperones for Glucocerebrosidase as a novel therapeutic strategy to fight #Parkinsons disease.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Nuria Vendrell-Llopis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose project focuses on disambiguating alpha-synuclein’s impact on cognitive decline.
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@uabneuro.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Nuria Vendrell-Llopis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose project focuses on disambiguating alpha-synuclein’s impact on cognitive decline.
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@uabneuro.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Kelly Stauch from the University of Nebraska, whose project focuses on new approaches for understanding dopaminergic neuron-specific mitochondrial alterations.
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@nebraskamed.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Kelly Stauch from the University of Nebraska, whose project focuses on new approaches for understanding dopaminergic neuron-specific mitochondrial alterations.
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@nebraskamed.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Sarah Shahmoradian from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, whose project focuses on unlocking the atomic binding site of a novel high-affinity molecule to alpha-synuclein in #Parkinsons brain & cell models.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Sarah Shahmoradian from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, whose project focuses on unlocking the atomic binding site of a novel high-affinity molecule to alpha-synuclein in #Parkinsons brain & cell models.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Colum MacKinnon from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, whose project focuses on the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on intrinsic lower leg spinal motoneuron excitability in #Parkinsons disease.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Colum MacKinnon from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, whose project focuses on the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on intrinsic lower leg spinal motoneuron excitability in #Parkinsons disease.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Kauê Costa from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose project focuses on uncovering the dopaminergic mechanisms of early cognitive deficits in #Parkinsons disease.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Impact Awardee, Dr. Kauê Costa from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose project focuses on uncovering the dopaminergic mechanisms of early cognitive deficits in #Parkinsons disease.
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@kmcostalab.com @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
🚨New Symposium Alert!🚨
🧠White Matter in Focus: Exploring the Role of Myelin & Oligodendrocytes in Neurodegeneration
📅 Date: Wed, 22nd Oct
📍 Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK
#Neurodegeneration #Myelin #Oligodendrocytes #Neuroscience
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🧠White Matter in Focus: Exploring the Role of Myelin & Oligodendrocytes in Neurodegeneration
📅 Date: Wed, 22nd Oct
📍 Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK
#Neurodegeneration #Myelin #Oligodendrocytes #Neuroscience
@caiuscollege.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🚨New Symposium Alert!🚨
🧠White Matter in Focus: Exploring the Role of Myelin & Oligodendrocytes in Neurodegeneration
📅 Date: Wed, 22nd Oct
📍 Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK
#Neurodegeneration #Myelin #Oligodendrocytes #Neuroscience
@caiuscollege.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
🧠White Matter in Focus: Exploring the Role of Myelin & Oligodendrocytes in Neurodegeneration
📅 Date: Wed, 22nd Oct
📍 Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK
#Neurodegeneration #Myelin #Oligodendrocytes #Neuroscience
@caiuscollege.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Fatemeh Tabari, whose project focuses on cortical and subcortical regions involved in voluntary motor control and speech production in PD. Fatemeh will be mentored by Joel Berger at the University of Iowa.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Fatemeh Tabari, whose project focuses on cortical and subcortical regions involved in voluntary motor control and speech production in PD. Fatemeh will be mentored by Joel Berger at the University of Iowa.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Gabriela Clemente, whose project focuses on mechanisms of toxicity in GBA-Parkinson’s disease. Gabriela will be mentored by Joseph Mazzulli at Northwestern University.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Gabriela Clemente, whose project focuses on mechanisms of toxicity in GBA-Parkinson’s disease. Gabriela will be mentored by Joseph Mazzulli at Northwestern University.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Mikaela Rosen, whose project focuses on exploring the relationship between HLA alleles and T-cell function in PD. Mikaela will be mentored by Soumya Raychaudhuri at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Mikaela Rosen, whose project focuses on exploring the relationship between HLA alleles and T-cell function in PD. Mikaela will be mentored by Soumya Raychaudhuri at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
Our PD GENEration team is hiring! 🧬 We are seeking qualified applicants for the following positions:
‣ Senior Manager, Clinical Research
‣ Senior Manager, Data Science
‣ Manager, Clinical Research – Sub-studies
‣ Senior Manager, Clinical Research
‣ Senior Manager, Data Science
‣ Manager, Clinical Research – Sub-studies
July 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our PD GENEration team is hiring! 🧬 We are seeking qualified applicants for the following positions:
‣ Senior Manager, Clinical Research
‣ Senior Manager, Data Science
‣ Manager, Clinical Research – Sub-studies
‣ Senior Manager, Clinical Research
‣ Senior Manager, Data Science
‣ Manager, Clinical Research – Sub-studies
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Henri Xhukellari, whose project focuses on unraveling mechanisms of sex differences in pain symptoms of #Parkinsons diseases. Henri will be mentored by Roberta Marongiu at Cornell University.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Henri Xhukellari, whose project focuses on unraveling mechanisms of sex differences in pain symptoms of #Parkinsons diseases. Henri will be mentored by Roberta Marongiu at Cornell University.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Emma Green, whose project focuses on a dual-hit approach to modulating alpha-synuclein levels and PD pathogenesis. Emma will be mentored by Donato Di Monte at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Emma Green, whose project focuses on a dual-hit approach to modulating alpha-synuclein levels and PD pathogenesis. Emma will be mentored by Donato Di Monte at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
We were honored to attend the 2025 Parkinson’s Disease Gordon Conference in Waterville Valley, NH. It was wonderful to bring together some of the best and brightest scientists to discuss the most exciting developments in PD research, including many of our own awardees and SAB members!
June 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We were honored to attend the 2025 Parkinson’s Disease Gordon Conference in Waterville Valley, NH. It was wonderful to bring together some of the best and brightest scientists to discuss the most exciting developments in PD research, including many of our own awardees and SAB members!
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Valerio Antonio Arcobelli, whose project focuses on longitudinal declines in newly diagnosed PD using machine learning approaches. Valerio will be mentored by Martina Mancini at Oregon Health & Science University.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Valerio Antonio Arcobelli, whose project focuses on longitudinal declines in newly diagnosed PD using machine learning approaches. Valerio will be mentored by Martina Mancini at Oregon Health & Science University.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Perel Rose, whose project focuses on toxicant-induced priming of inflammasome pathways in #Parkinson's disease. Perel will be mentored by Briana De Miranda at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Perel Rose, whose project focuses on toxicant-induced priming of inflammasome pathways in #Parkinson's disease. Perel will be mentored by Briana De Miranda at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social