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
Abby L. Olsen, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Harnessing the untapped therapeutic potential of glia in Parkinson’s disease
Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Research Grant
The Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Research Grant is awarded to an investigator studying the health disparities or differences among under-represented PD communities.
Erin Foster, PhD
Washington University, St.Louis, MO
Understanding engagement in research, clinical care, and community services among people of color with Parkinson 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.
Tyler Camp, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
α-synuclein oligomerization and membrane localization in Parkinson’s disease
Stephan Grimaldi, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Longitudinal Changes of Brainstem-based Biomarkers of Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease with Ultra-high Field MRI
Anastasia Kuzkina, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Developing human iPSC models for examining host-strain interactions in synucleinopathy
Andrew Zimnik, PhD
Columbia University, New York, NY
Role of basal ganglia output in acquiring and executing complex motor skills
Research Grants
This grant is awarded to investigators performing innovative PD research at major academic institutions across the United States.
Eamonn Dickson, PhD
University of California Davis, Davis, CA
α-synuclein dependent remodeling of membrane contact sites as a driver of Parkinson’s disease neurotoxicity
Ronald Emeson, PhD
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
ADAR-Mediated LRRK2 Therapeutics in Parkinson’s Disease
Sunil Kumar, PhD
University of Denver, Denver, CO
Therapeutic validation of novel targets associated with Parkinson’s disease
Gabsang Lee, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
In vitro and in vivo efficacy of hit compound selected from OASIS drug screening platform
James Liao, MD,PhD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
External vs internal-triggered augmented-reality visual cues to treat freezing of gait
Michael Lodato, PhD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
Single-cell whole genome sequencing analysis of DNA damage and somatic mutation in the human Parkinson’s disease brain
Ryan Roemmich, PhD
Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore, MD
An automated mHealth approach for video-based motor assessment in Parkinson’s disease
Hiroaki Sekiya, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Differential protein and gene expression by digital spatial profiling in neurons with α -synuclein oligomers or Lewy bodies
Martine Tetrault, PhD
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Regulation of aberrant immunity in Parkinson’s disease by stearoyl-CoA desaturase
Nicolas Tritsch, PhD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Revealing how striatal circuits gradually changes as dopamine neurons degenerate
Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
The nigrostriatal-specific dopaminergic synapse organizer and Parkinson’s disease
Laura Volpicelli-Daley, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
mGluR4 activation to rescue amygdala defects caused by aggregated alpha-synuclein
Scott Waldman, MD, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Targeting GUCY2C for Neuroprotection in Experimental Parkinson’s Disease
IN THE NEWS
APDA Awards $2.35 Million in Research Grants.