Announcing APPD Grant Winners 2022

Announcing the Aufzien Family Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (APPD) Grant Winners 2022

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:

Hagit Eldar-Finkelman
Psychedelics in Parkinson’s Disease:
treatment and mechanisms
Faculty of Medicine

Roy Mukamel, Neomi Singer
Playing with my ears: Audiomotor skill
learning across ears and hands in PD
patients
School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of
Social Sciences & Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center

Dan Frenkel
The role of the lipid transporter
ABCA7 as potential treatment in
Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of
Neuroscience
 

Mordechai Lorberboym, Yankel Gabet
Personalized cannabis therapy based on objective
measurements to reduce adverse reactions in Parkinson’s
Disease patients
Faculty of Medicine & Shamir Medical Center

Dani Offen
Mesenchymal stem cells extracellular vesicles loaded
with therapeutic proteins for the treatment of Parkinson's
Disease
Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience

Uri Ashery, Ben Maoz, Roded Sharan
Patient-derived high-risk mutations as a tool for deciphering
cellular Parkinson’s Disease-associated processes
Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Exact Sciences
& Sagol School of Neuroscience

Tal Dvir
Bio-Engineering functional, implantable human
dopaminergic networks to treat Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty of Life Sciences

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