⏰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

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Perel Rose, whose project focuses on toxicant-induced priming of inflammasome pathways in #Parkinson's disease. Perel will be mentored by Briana De Miranda at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Happy #Pride Month from the Parkinson’s Foundation! 🏳️‍🌈 This month and beyond, we are committed to removing barriers to care, making research inclusive, and ensuring that information and resources are accessible to all. (1/2)

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Ella Chiu, whose project focuses on investigating the role of ceramide metabolism in pathogenic protein aggregation in PD. Ella will be mentored by Marie Ynez Davis at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Mira Ravi, whose project focuses on investigating the effects of low-frequency deep brain stimulation on tremor. Mira will be mentored by Helen Bronte-Stewart at Stanford University. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Andrew Kim, whose project focuses on exploring glymphatic dysfunction as a biomarker of dopaminergic activity and disease severity in PD. Andrew will be mentored by Hosung Kim at the University of Southern California. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Gerald Nwosu, whose project focuses on investigating beta power change in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as a biomarker for DBS associated cognitive impairment. Gerald will be mentored by Sarah K Bick at Vanderbilt. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Lehmann Matheny, whose project focuses on the role of Rab27b effector protein Coronin1c in regulating alpha-synuclein pathology. Lehmann will be mentored by Talene Yacoubian at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Negar Nasrkhani, whose project focuses on transcranial ultrasound stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus to address freezing of gait in PD. Negar will be mentored by Robert Chen at the University Health Network. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Naomi Grabus, whose project focuses on targeting NaV1.7 for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease associated pain. Naomi will be mentored by Rajesh Khanna at the University of Florida. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Aidan Meyers, whose project focuses on exploring intestinal SLC4A2 as a modifier of dopaminergic neuron degeneration in a C. elegans model of PD. Aidan will be mentored by Kim Caldwell at the University of Alabama. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Marlie Ali Yandza, whose project focuses on the involvement of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease via disruption of the brain's peripheral immune axis. Marlie will be mentored by Aurelie de Rus Jacquet at Laval University. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Summer Student Fellow, Lea Bastien, whose project focuses on multimodal MRI markers to predict phenoconversion in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder. Lea will be mentored by Shady Rahayel at CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Ile-Montreal. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📢 Congratulations to 2025 Visiting Scholar Awardee, Teel Walters, whose project focuses on identifying convergent regulatory elements of Parkinson’s associated environmental toxicants. Teel will be mentored by Alison Bernstein at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

📄Shoutout to our 2019 Research Center awardees at Yale (@pdc-lab.bsky.social, @shawnferguson.bsky.social) for their new publication on the bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C/PARK23 mediates ER–lysosome contacts following lysosome damage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Happy World Health Day from your friends at the Parkinson's Foundation!💙 @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

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

New from the @malutansey.bsky.social group: investigation of shared and distinct gut microbiome features between inflammatory bowel disease and PD, which have long been linked. Both diseases show depletion in short-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria—depletion of these microbes may enhance PD risk?

Our Stanley Fahn Awardee @bdemira.bsky.social delivered a beautiful Keynote Address last week at the 2025 CRN Collaborative Meeting @asapresearch.bsky.social. 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.bsky.social 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: www.parkinson.org/blog/researc...

✨🔬 To all women scientists across the 🌍 —thank you for your passion, innovation, and contributions to the future of Parkinson’s research! @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social is proud to have supported 139 women scientists since 2016 from 12 countries across 6 continents! #WomenInScience #Parkinsons

Congrats to Visiting Scholar Awardee Charlotte Brzozowski, from the Moehle and Volpicelli-Daley labs, showing that a-syn aggregation drives changes in corticostriatal synaptic structure and function, whereas thalamostriatal synapses are relatively unaffected. Cool! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

@pfresearchteam.bsky.social 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! www.epicshare.org/share-and-le...