Applications close in JUST ONE WEEK for our Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award! 😱 For more information and to apply, click the link below! www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

2025 was a remarkable year for the Parkinson’s Foundation! With your support, we launched new initiatives & vital PD resources, stayed fast in our commitment to improving PD care & research, and empowered the community through education & resources. Parkinson.org/blog/awareness/2025-milestones

🎓Are you an undergrad student, medical student, PhD student, or a postdoctoral fellow in pursuit of Parkinson's-related research projects? If so, you should apply for our Summer Student Fellowships or Visiting Scholar Awards! ▶️Applications are due 1/26, apply now: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

👀 Did you know that the Parkinson’s Foundation is now accepting applications for our Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award? Applications close on January 12th, get those apps in! www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

📣Introducing our 2025 Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Awardee! This 1-year award is jointly supported by the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (IAPRD) and is designed to foster clinical research into any aspect of PD conducted by young investigators.

📣Introducing our 2025 Postdoctoral Fellows! This two-year fellowship supports young scientists fresh from their PhD training or neurology residencies. This year we funded 6 Postdoctoral Fellowships for a total of $860k.

📣Introducing our 2025 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awardees! This award acts as a bridge to ensure promising early-career scientists stay in the #Parkinsons research field, helping us solve, treat, and end the disease. This year we funded 3 Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Awards for a total of $900k.

The Parkinson's Foundation is celebrating a significant milestone! Our landmark genetics study, PD GENEration, has enrolled 30,000 participants. 🧬 PD GENEration offers genetic testing and counseling, at no cost, to people living with Parkinson's disease in more than 8 countries. (1/3)

📣Introducing our 2025 Trailblazer Awardees! The Parkinson’s Foundation Trailblazer Award was designed to fund researchers for innovative projects that bring new light to the biology of #Parkinsons or test novel therapeutic ideas. This year we funded 7 Trailblazer Awards, for a total of $1.1 million.

🚨 Big news! The Parkinson’s Foundation is now accepting for our Visiting Scholar Award, Summer Student Fellowship, and Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award! 🚀 Apply now: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

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!

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

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!

It was wonderful seeing everyone at the annual Parkinson's Foundation Social Event at #SfN25!

Check out the newest publication from 2024 Postdoc Fellowship Awardee @silasabuck.bsky.social! Intriguing results--much still to be learned about the role of GVBs.

⏰It's time to get your LOI submitted for the 2026 Parkinson's Foundation Launch Award! Applications close Wednesday, 10/29 at 3:00pm 😱 For more information and to apply, please visit: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

Congratulations to 2024 Postdoc Fellow Amitabh Bhattacharya for publishing a new review on how different forms of non-invasive brain stimulation alter brain plasticity. These non-invasive treatments have exciting implications for PD treatments! www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

⏰The clock is ticking to get your LOI submitted for the 2026 Parkinson's Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship! Applications close Wednesday, 10/22 at 3:00pm 😱 For more information and to apply, please visit: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

Our Impact Award LOI applications close THIS FRIDAY at 3:00pm Eastern! 😮 For more information and to apply, please visit: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

🚨Our research grant LOI deadlines are approaching!🚨 ▶️Impact Awards: 10/10/2025 ▶️Postdoctoral Fellowships: 10/22/2025 ▶️Launch Awards: 10/29/2025 For more information and to apply, please visit: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

😮 Our Impact Award LOI closes NEXT FRIDAY, October 10th at 3:00pm Eastern! ▶️For more information and to apply, please visit: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re...

We are now accepting applications for our Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award! 🎉 This is 1-year, $50,000 award is designed to foster clinical research into any aspect of #Parkinsons disease conducted by young investigators. A few details below ⬇️

Check out the latest from Research Center Awardee @schandralab.bsky.social on cognitive dysfunction in mouse models of GBA-linked PD. They show that GBA mutations contribute to cognitive deficits via mechanisms involving dysfunctional synaptic vesicle endocytosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⏰The clock is ticking to get your LOIs submitted for the 2026 Parkinson's Foundation research grants! Please note the following deadlines (all due at 3:00pm Eastern): ▶️Impact Awards: 10/10/2025 ▶️Postdoctoral Fellowships: 10/22/2025 ▶️Launch Awards: 10/29/2025

📢 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. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📣Introducing our 2025 Impact Awardees! The Parkinson’s Foundation Impact Award is a 2-year award that funds innovative projects that are in need of support to see their maximum impact on the #Parkinsons community. 🎉This year we funded 6 Impact Awards, for a total of $1.2 million.

🚨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

Did you know that the Parkinson's Foundation is accepting LOIs for our Launch Award? 🤩 This 4-year, 2-stage award for outstanding postdoctoral researchers will enable them to complete needed mentored training and transition promptly to independent research careers in PD. A few details below ⬇️

Thrilled to kick off our collaboration with @kmcostalab.com, supported by an Impact Award from @pfresearchteam.bsky.social. We will uncover how striatal dopamine contributes to cognitive decline in early stages of #Parkinsonsdisease. Exciting times ahead! @tvmiiser @bio_iisertvm

The lab has received a Parkinson's Foundation Impact Award! Together with @poonamthakur.bsky.social, we will explore how dopamine signaling changes in early PD impacts cognition. We are honored and grateful for this opportunity! proposalcentral.com/Insights/E_E... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Did you know that the Parkinson's Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship LOI applications are now OPEN?! 👀 This two-year fellowship is for young scientists fresh from their PhD training or neurology residencies. A few details below ⬇️

The Parkinson's Foundation Impact Award LOI applications are now OPEN! 🎉 This award supports innovative projects from their inception, providing the necessary resources to maximize their impact on the #Parkinsons community. A few details below ⬇️

📢 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

📢 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. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

🚨 Big news! The Parkinson’s Foundation is now accepting LOIs for our research grants! 🚀 We're funding groundbreaking science through our Impact Awards, Launch Awards, and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Apply now: www.parkinson.org/advancing-re... @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

2022 Postdoc Giovanni Bellomo developed a novel assay to quantify phosphorylated a-synuclein (pS129) in human CSF and plasma. While pS129 a-synuclein is detectible in these biofluids, it does not serve as a reliable marker of a-syn aggregation. Important to know! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Huge news! The Parkinson’s Foundation is dropping RFAs for our research grants on August 25! 🧠💡 If you're driving innovation in Parkinson's research, mark your calendar—this is the opportunity you've been waiting for. #ParkinsonsResearch @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

⭐The Parkinson's Foundation has announced an investment of more than $4.3 million for 44 grants to accelerate cutting-edge Parkinson's disease (PD) research. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social www.parkinson.org/about-us/new...

📢 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. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📖Read the latest Advancing Research blog about the impact the @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social 2019 Research Center Award had on PD research at Yale University. @schandralab.bsky.social @shawnferguson.bsky.social @pdc-lab.bsky.social @yaleneuro.bsky.social www.parkinson.org/blog/researc...

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

📢 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

Congrats to Nico Bohnen and Roger Albin (University of Michigan Research Centers Award) for their study showing subtyping of PD patients via imaging of the cholinergic system; these cholinergic subgroups associate with distinct clinical symptoms and progression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉Congratulations to @benjamindehay.bsky.social on their new publication, “Differential pathological dynamics triggered by distinct Parkinson patient–derived α-synuclein extracts in nonhuman primates”, which was supported by his 2023 Bill and Amy Gurley Impact Award. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This Juneteenth, we’re celebrating freedom while also acknowledging the work still needed to achieve health equity. The Parkinson's Foundation is committed to providing support to all communities affected by PD. Learn more about the work we are doing to remove care barriers: Parkinson.org/Diversity

📢 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

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. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social