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, 2025Potent Inhibitors of Deubiquitinating Enzyme USP14 as Inducers of Parkin-independent Mitophagy
Study Rationale: We are working on a small, drug-like compound that has potential therapeutic application in Parkinson's disease. This drug-like compound specifically inhibits a protein in the cell...
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Spring 2025 RFA: Molecular MRI Biomarker Program, 2025Novel Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualize and Quantify Impaired Brain Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Parkinson's Disease
Study Rationale: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the quality of life of more than one million people in the United States alone. Abnormal brain energy metabolism...
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Spring 2025 RFA Seed Amplification Assay Innovation Program, 2025Development of an Efficient Method to Capture Synuclein Seeds from Biological Samples for Detection Using SynSAA
Study Rationale: Synuclein seeds detected in cerebrospinal fluid are the earliest sign of Parkinson’s disease (PD) identified to date. CSF has a simpler composition than blood or saliva. To detect...
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Summer 2025 RFP: Accelerating Biological Understanding and Translational Approaches for PD Program - Biology, 2025Structural determination of PD-associated GCase variants in complex with LIMP-2
Study Rationale: In Parkinson’s disease (PD), some of the most common genetic risk factors are changes in the GBA1 gene, which provides instructions to make the enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase (GCase)...
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2021 RFA: Improved Outcome Measures, 2025Volatile Biomarkers of Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease from Sebum
Study Rationale: Researchers in the UK discovered biochemical molecules that are specifically present in the sebum, the oily substance produced by the skin, of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and...
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Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program, 2025Late-preclinical Development of a Differentiated TRPML1 Agonist to Slow Progression of Parkinson’s Disease
Study Rationale: TPRML1 is protein found on lysosomes, which serve as the cell’s degradation and recycling center. Lysosomes stop working properly in Parkinson’s disease and accumulate garbage...
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