Announcing APPD Grant Winners 2021

The Research Fund will provide the following scientists with funding towards supporting fundamental and translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Parkinson’s Disease. Thank you to all of those who submitted proposals. Continue to check the APPD website for new grant announcements.

Congratulations to this year’s winners:

$25,000 Award

Uri Ashery: Implementing a novel platform for alpha-synuclein aggregates detection using super- resolution microscopy and artificial
intelligence

Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience

$100,000 Award

Avraham Ashkenazi: Revealing mechanisms of the lipid scramblase ANO6/TMEM16F in α-synuclein pathological behavior

Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience

Moshe Parnas(1), Mia Horowitz(2): Studies on the interplay between mutant GBA1 and mutant LRRK2 alleles in development of Parkinson disease using Drosophila models

(1) Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience
(2) Faculty of Life Sciences

Eran Perlson(1), Sharon Hassin(2), Amir Dori(2): Molecular mechanism of GDNF transport in Parkinson disease

(1) Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience
(2) Sheba Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine

Yuval Nir: Beyond RBD: covert REM sleep abnormalities in Parkinson disease

Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience

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