Parkinson's Foundation Research

🚨 Big news! The Parkinson’s Foundation is now accepting LOIs for our research grants! 🚀 Follow us on Bluesky to learn more: bsky.app/profile/pfrese…

📖Read the latest Advancing Research blog about the impact the @ParkinsonDotOrg 2019 Research Center Award had on PD research at Yale University. @SChandraLab @YaleNeuro @PDClab parkinson.org/blog/research/…

📣 To better connect with the growing scientific community, the Parkinson’s Foundation is transitioning from Twitter to Bluesky. We’ll be announcing new funding opportunities, awardees, and research updates exclusively on Bluesky. Follow us at: @pfresearchteam.bsky.social

📄Shoutout to our 2019 Research Center awardees at Yale (@PDClab, @Shawn__Ferguson) for their new publication on the bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C/PARK23 mediates ER–lysosome contacts following lysosome damage: nature.com/articles/s4155…

🚨 New Neuro Talk alert! 🎙 Our CSO @jbeck_PhD joins PF grantees to talk breakthroughs & what’s next for PD research. Don’t miss it! 🧠 #Parkinsons #NeuroTalk #PDresearch parkinson.org/blog/research/…

Happy World Health Day from your friends at the Parkinson's Foundation!💙 @ParkinsonDotOrg

2024 Postdoctoral Fellow @SilasABuck @DukeMedSchool presented his fascinating work at #ADPD2025 on the interplay between LRRK2 and tau pathology in Parkinson's. Well done Silas!

New from @malutansey group: investigation of shared and distinct gut microbiome features between inflammatory bowel disease and PD. Both diseases show depletion in short-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria—depletion of these microbes may enhance PD risk? nature.com/articles/s4153…

Our Stanley Fahn Awardee Briana De Miranda delivered a beautiful Keynote Address last week at ASAP's 2025 CRN Collaborative Meeting. It was a wonderful overview of the known environmental risk factors for PD. Well done Briana!

Happy International Women's Day! Today we celebrate the brilliant women shaping the future of #Parkinsons research.

On February 21st, @ParkinsonDotOrg hosted a town hall to share what we’ve learned from PD GENEration so far and where the study may be headed. Click the link below to read more: parkinson.org/blog/research/…

✨🔬 @WomenScienceDay To all women scientists across the 🌍 - thank you for your passion, innovation, and contributions to the future of Parkinson’s research! @ParkinsonDotOrg is proud to have supported 139 women scientists since 2016 from 12 countries across 6 continents!

Check out this new article about personal utility of #Parkinsons genetic testing results from the @ParkinsonDotOrg PD GENEration: Mapping the Future of Parkinson’s Disease study. Click the link below to learn more! go.nature.com/3WSuA1Y

Congrats to Visiting Scholar Awardee Charlotte Brzozowski, from @LabMoehle @lvolpic labs, showing that a-syn aggregation drives changes in corticostriatal synaptic structure and function, whereas thalamostriatal synapses are relatively unaffected. Cool! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 @ParkinsonDotOrg teamed up with movement disorder specialists to design guidance in Epic to support better care for hospitalized patients with #Parkinsons disease. Click the link below to learn more! epicshare.org/share-and-lear…

‼️Applications for our Summer Student Fellowships and Visiting Scholar Awards are due in just a few days on Monday, February 3rd! Apply here: proposalcentral.com/GrantOpportuni…

‼️Applications for our Summer Student Fellowships and Visiting Scholar Awards are due in just a few weeks on Monday, February 3rd! Apply here: proposalcentral.com/GrantOpportuni…

Intriguingly, previous work has demonstrated that these LC-NE neurons are vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson's disease, suggesting a potential mechanistic link to PD-related sleep disturbances. Congrats Dan! #sec-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Shoutout to 2021 Postdoc Fellow Dan Silverman for his paper showing that noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC-NE neurons) regulate the propensity to sleep after wakefulness, known as "sleep pressure," via an A2a-adrenergic receptor-dependent mechanism (link below).

‼️Applications for the Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award are due in just a few days on January 15th! Apply here: proposalcentral.com/GrantOpportuni…