Project Highlights
Contributions
Here is an overview of how this team’s article findings have contributed to the PD field as of June 2025. There are two different categorizations of these contributions – one by impact to the PD community and a second by scientific category.
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Immune Cells May Lead to More Parkinson’s Cases in Men
02/25/2025 — New research from Team Sulzer reveals how a protein in brain cells may drive Parkinson’s onset—and offers a possible explanation for why Parkinson’s is much more common in men.
Study Adds to Evidence That Parkinson’s Starts in the Gut
08/18/2023 — This story reports on new findings from Team Sulzer that indicates that PD begins in the gut and that what triggers initial gastrointestinal changes in Parkinson’s could be a misdirected immune attack.
Parkinson’s Disease: Essential Role in Neuroinflammation Found for a Subset of Brain Macrophages
08/09/2023 — Team Sulzer used a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease to show that border-associated macrophages — not microglia — mediate the neuroinflammatory response in the brain.
