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| October 2011 |
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Peter LeWitt, MD, Wayne State University, Director, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Program, Michigan, was awarded a $12,559 grant from the PSG and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for his research entitled “COMT met genotype polymorphism and cognitive performance in PD with and without selegiline treatment”.
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| September 2010 |
| Matthew Menza, MD, Professor, Psychiatry & Neurology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, was awarded a $9,200 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for his research entitled "An Exploration of the Association of Inflammatory Cytokines and the Non-Motor Symptoms of PD in Patients in DATATOP". |
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| February 2010 |
| Un Jung Kang, MD, Professor of Neurology, University of Chicago Medical Center, was awarded a $7,600 grant from the PSG and Parkison's Disease Foundation for his research entitled "The role of motor learning in dopaminergic therapy of PD". |
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| October 2009 |
Xuemei Huang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, was awarded a $13,200 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for her data-mining project entitled "Serum cholesterol level as a predictor of progression in PD". Dr. Huang will be working with Honglei Chen of NIEHS and co-investigator's Alberto Ascherio of Harvard School of Public Health and Michael Schwarzschild or Harvard Medical School.
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| February 2009 |
| Timothy J. Collier, PhD, Professor of Neurology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for his data-mining project entitled "Antidepressant Induced Delay of Motor Symptoms in PD (AIDS-PD)". The co-investigator, Katrina Paumier, BS, is a PhD candidate under Dr. Collier's direction. This project will be coordinated with the PSG Genetics and Environmental Working Group funded project on "Impact of commonly-prescribed medications on PD progression" led by Andrew Siderowf, MD, MSCE. |
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| October 2008 |
Robert A. Hauser, MD, Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of South Florida, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for his data-mining project entitled "Determination of Minimally Clinically Important Change in Early and Advanced Parkinson's Disease". Peggy Auinger, MS is co-PI on the project.
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| May 2008 |
| Marian Evatt, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Emory University and Assistant Director of the Movement Disorders Program at Wesley Woods Hospital, Atlanta, GA, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for her data-mining project entitled "Vitamin D Insufficiency: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates in the DATATOP Cohort". Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD and Mahlon R. Delong, MD serve as co-PIs on the project. |
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October 2007
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Ergun Uc, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for his data-mining research proposal entitled “Weight loss in Parkinson’s disease”. This was a collective effort of the PSG Other Non-Motor Features of PD Working Group with Carlos Singer, MD, Jay Rao, MD, and David Oakes, PhD as co-investigators.
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Connie Marras, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto Movement Disorders Centre, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for her planning project entitled “Environmental exposures modifying clinical expression of LRRK2-associated Parkinson’s disease”. Caroline Tanner, MD, PhD and Anthony Lang, MD serve as co-PIs on the project.
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| July 2007 |
Jing Zhang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Shaw Endowed Professorship in Neuropathology Division of Neuropathology Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson's Disease Foundation for his data-mining research proposal entitled "Using human cerebrospinal fluid samples collected in DATATOP study for biomarker discovery in patients with Parkinson's disease". This was a collective effort of the PSG Biomarkers Working Group. Un Jung Kang, MD will be an active participant and advisor on this project. Michael McDermott, PhD will provide statistical support.
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| June 2007 |
| Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, at Harvard Medical School, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for his data-mining research proposal entitled “Predicting PD Progression Subtypes by CSF Urate Pathways”. He and Alberto Ascherio, MD, PhD serve as co-PIs on the project. |
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| February 2007 |
| Ergun Uc, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, of the Divisions of Movement Disorders & Neuroergonomics, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the PSG and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for his data-mining research proposal entitled “Predictors and Course of Cognitive Decline and Depression Early in the Course of PD based on the DATATOP Cohort”.This was a collective effort of the PSG Cognitive/Psychiatric Working Group with John Growdon, Kelvin Chou, Karen Marder, Irene Litvan, Michel Panisset, Steve Anderson, and Peter Como all as co-investigators. Michael McDermott, PhD is the statistical co-PI. |
