APDA-Funded Research for 2024-2025
Exciting research is underway. Take a look at the innovative projects and inspiring researchers APDA is supporting this year.
George C. Cotzias Fellowship
The George C. Cotzias Fellowship is named in honor of the scientist who had a critical role in developing Levodopa as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease and is awarded with the purpose of encouraging young neurologists to follow in his footsteps.
Gary Ho, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Leveraging protein palmitoylation to correct vesicle trafficking defects in Parkinson’s disease
Krithi Irmady, MD, PhD
Rockefeller University, New York City, NY
RNA regulation in Parkinson’s disease and levodopa-induced dyskinesia
William Zeiger, MD, PhD
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
Neuronal microcircuit mechanisms of posterior
cortical dysfunction and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Parkinson’s
disease
Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Research Grant
The Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Research Grant is awarded to investigators studying the health disparities or differences among under-represented PD communities.
Ignacio Mata, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Machine-learning model for predicting levodopa-induced dyskinesias in a large cohort of Latinos with Parkinson’s disease
Melissa Nirenberg, MD, PhD
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, New York City, NY
Parkinson’s disease phenotype in Black and Hispanic veterans
Danielle Shpiner, MD
Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami. Miami, FL
Improving access to advance care planning for Hispanic people with Parkinson’s disease
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
This fellowship is awarded to support post-doctoral scientists whose research holds promise to provide new insights into the pathophysiology, etiology, and treatment of PD.
Abdulmunaim Eid, MD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
The neurobiological basis of Parkinson’s disease clinical subtypes
Andrew Monaghan, PhD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Electrophysiological characterization of neural circuit pathophysiology underlying freezing of gait
Yuxiao Ning, PhD
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
Multiregional neural population dynamics in
Parkinson’s disease and during directional deep brain stimulation
Brianne Rogers, PhD
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL
Mechanisms of SNCA regulation
Carlos Soto-Faguás, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
The effects of the ApoE Christchurch variant on Lewy body pathology development and spreading
Donghe Yang, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY
Characterizing and modeling the development of human A9 midbrain dopaminergic neurons with pluripotent stem cells
Research Grants
This grant is awarded to investigators performing innovative PD research at major academic institutions across the United States.
Patricia Aguilar Calvo, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Heparan-sulfate mediated mechanisms of a-synuclein propagation in Parkinson’s disease
Athanasios Alexandris, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Investigating the role of a-synucleinopathy in axonal protein homeostasis and viability
Saar Anis, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Deep brain stimulation neural recordings analysis of varied stimulation parameters during sleep in Parkinson’s disease(The DREAMS-PD Study)
Helen Hwang, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
Characterization of inhibitors of alpha-synuclein fibril growth
Francesca Magrinelli, MD, PhD
University College London Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Dissecting PSMF1 as a new gene for early-onset Parkinson’s disease/parkinsonism
Franchino Porciuncula, PT, DScPT, EdD
Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA
Does rhythmic auditory stimulus reduce the cognitive demands of walking in Parkinson’s disease?
Emily Rocha, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease
Mariangela Scarduzio, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Striatal acetylcholine dynamics in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia
IN THE NEWS
APDA Awards $2.6 million in Research Grants.