Projects

Preserving motor engrams in Parkinson's disease: Neural circuit and transcriptomic studies and strategies for resilient motor control

This team aims to better understand how Parkinson's disease attacks the brain's basic motor programs and to spawn novel therapies against the disease using gene-editing technology.

Award Year:

  • 2022

Funding Type:

  • Brain Resilience Catalyst Award

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Research Summary

This team aims to better understand how Parkinson's disease attacks the brain's basic motor programs and to spawn novel therapies against the disease using gene-editing technology.

Research Team

Lead Researcher(s)

Jun Ding

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Team Members

  1. Mark J. Schnitzer

    Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Biology, of Applied Physics and of Neurosurgery

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