The Research Community highlights the teams and investigators advancing science together. Explore the work, follow connections, and discover opportunities to engage more deeply.
The research of the ASAP Collaborative Research Network (CRN) is structured around three primary themes that foster collaboration and coordination across teams:
1. Functional Genomics in Parkinson’s Disease
2. Neuro-Immune Interactions
3. Circuitry and Brain-Body Interactions
Each theme is designed to deepen our understanding of PD biology and drive progress toward new treatments. These themes are built around real-world scientific challenges and reflect priorities identified by the Parkinson’s research community. By focusing efforts around shared questions, we hope to accelerate more connected, impactful discovery.

The CRN brings together a diverse, international community of multidisciplinary teams made of investigators and trainees from leading academic and research institutions. Our community is a driving force behind ASAP’s mission to accelerate the pace of discovery in PD through team-based, open, and multidisciplinary science.

The CRN has established working groups that bring together investigators across teams to collaborate on shared challenges, develop best practice recommendations, and drive field-wide progress in Parkinson’s research.
These groups focus on cross-cutting priorities such as data sharing, resource standardization, protocol harmonization, and equity in research practices. By fostering coordination beyond individual research themes, the working groups serve as engines for community-wide innovation, ensuring that insights, tools, and datasets generated by our teams are broadly usable, reproducible, and aligned with ASAP’s commitment to transparency and collaboration.

Drake Bytnar
Marinka Zitnik
Le Zhang
Yongjie Zhang
Henrik Zetterberg
Fides Zenk
Balyn Zaro
Alexandra Young
Yang Yang
Benjamin Wolozin
Marius Wernig
Catherine Weindel
Joel Watts
Fei Wang
David Walt
Rebecca Wallings
Sreeja Vijayan Nair
Aleksandar Videnovic
Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen
Ayse Ulusoy
Tiffany Todd
Clive Svendsen
Eva-Maria Surmann
Stephen Strittmatter
Claudio Soto
Eric Song
Richard Smeyne
Andrew Sharott
Yogita Sharma
Geidy Serrano
Sofia Sepulveda Contreras
Stefan Semrau
Jens Schwamborn
Sjors Scheres
Michael Sasner
Esther Sammler
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon
Bryan Roth
David Root
Marina Romero-Ramos
Emily Rocha
Beate Ritz
Dmytro Radchenko
Annelies Quaegebeur
Mercedes Prudencio
Jean-Francois Poulin
Abigail Polter
Sean Pintchovski
Louise Piilgaard
Toan Khoi Quoc Phung
Leonard Petrucelli
Chao Peng
Wouter Peelaerts
Kimberly Paul
Laura Parkkinen
Hina Ojha
Marc Oeller
Daniela Noain
Colleen Niswender
Raja Sekhar Nirujogi
Nikoline Juul Nielsen
Jessie Ni
Nandakumar Narayanan
Vijay Namboodiri
Cristina Miguelez
Vilas Menon
Justin McDonough
Elie Matar
Sarah Marzi
Angelina Maric
Matthias Mann
Kishore Malyavantham
Tuyana Malankhanova
Evan Macosko
Åsa Mackenzie
Peter Loskill
Christina M. Lill
Rosalie Lawrence
Hilal Lashuel
Ravindran Kumaran
Anna Krichevsky
Gabor Kovacs
Michael Koob
Andreas Keller
Travis Johnson
Jonathan Javitch
Tal Iram
Franziska Hopfner
Nick Hollon
Günter Höglinger
Sabine Hilfiker
Lenora Higginbotham
Andreas Heuer
Anastasia Henry
Erinc Halliacli
Elisa Greggio
J Timothy Greenamyre
Matthew Goldberg
Michel Goedert
Rik Gijsbers
Jasmin Galper
Li Fu
YuHong Fu
Ellen Fruzyna
James Fraser
Valentina Fossati
Kyle Farmer
Annette Ersbøll
Daniel El Kodsi
David Eisenberg
Epaminondas Doxakis
Derk-Jan Dijk
Philip Denner
Philip De Jager
John Crary
Chuyu Chen
Jeff Bronstein
David Bradway
Elizabeth Bradshaw
Mario Borgnia
Per Borghammer
Luis Bonet-Ponce
Jérôme Baufreton
Michael Bassik
Alberto Bartesaghi
Nicholas Ashton
Daniel Arango
Shan Andrews
Natasha Roy
Leo Tsai
Dave Alonso
Laurel Screven
Su-Chun Zhang
Ramnik Xavier
Yuanchao Xue
Courtney Wright
Nicholas Wood
Thomas Wichmann
Beatrice Weykopf
Andrew West
Christine Weber-Schmidt
Michael Ward
Allen Wang
Levi Waldron
Laura Volpicelli-Daley
Richard Wade-Martins
Thierry Voet
Elizabeth Villa
Miquel Vila
Michele Vendruscolo
Peter Vangheluwe
David Van Valen
Louis-Eric Trudeau
Robert Turner
Kate Trimble
Julianna Tomlinson
Lachlan Thompson
Bernard Thienpont
Maria de Lourdes Tansey
Michael Tadross
Per Svenningsson
James Surmeier
Lorenz Studer
Drake Bytnar
Marinka Zitnik
Le Zhang
Yongjie Zhang
Henrik Zetterberg
Fides Zenk
Balyn Zaro
Alexandra Young
Yang Yang
Benjamin Wolozin
Marius Wernig
Catherine Weindel
Joel Watts
Fei Wang
David Walt
Rebecca Wallings
Sreeja Vijayan Nair
Aleksandar Videnovic
Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen
Ayse Ulusoy
Tiffany Todd
Clive Svendsen
Eva-Maria Surmann
Stephen Strittmatter
Claudio Soto
Eric Song
Richard Smeyne
Andrew Sharott
Yogita Sharma
Geidy Serrano
Sofia Sepulveda Contreras
Stefan Semrau
Jens Schwamborn
Sjors Scheres
Michael Sasner
Esther Sammler
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon
Bryan Roth
David Root
Marina Romero-Ramos
Emily Rocha
Beate Ritz
Dmytro Radchenko
Annelies Quaegebeur
Mercedes Prudencio
Jean-Francois Poulin
Abigail Polter
Sean Pintchovski
Louise Piilgaard
Toan Khoi Quoc Phung
Leonard Petrucelli
Chao Peng
Wouter Peelaerts
Kimberly Paul
Laura Parkkinen
Hina Ojha
Marc Oeller
Daniela Noain
Colleen Niswender
Raja Sekhar Nirujogi
Nikoline Juul Nielsen
Jessie Ni
Nandakumar Narayanan
Vijay Namboodiri
Cristina Miguelez
Vilas Menon
Justin McDonough
Elie Matar
Sarah Marzi
Angelina Maric
Matthias Mann
Kishore Malyavantham
Tuyana Malankhanova
Evan Macosko
Åsa Mackenzie
Peter Loskill
Christina M. Lill
Rosalie Lawrence
Hilal Lashuel
Ravindran Kumaran
Anna Krichevsky
Gabor Kovacs
Michael Koob
Andreas Keller
Travis Johnson
Jonathan Javitch
Tal Iram
Franziska Hopfner
Nick Hollon
Günter Höglinger
Sabine Hilfiker
Lenora Higginbotham
Andreas Heuer
Anastasia Henry
Erinc Halliacli
Elisa Greggio
J Timothy Greenamyre
Matthew Goldberg
Michel Goedert
Rik Gijsbers
Jasmin Galper
Li Fu
YuHong Fu
Ellen Fruzyna
James Fraser
Valentina Fossati
Kyle Farmer
Annette Ersbøll
Daniel El Kodsi
David Eisenberg
Epaminondas Doxakis
Derk-Jan Dijk
Philip Denner
Philip De Jager
John Crary
Chuyu Chen
Jeff Bronstein
David Bradway
Elizabeth Bradshaw
Mario Borgnia
Per Borghammer
Luis Bonet-Ponce
Jérôme Baufreton
Michael Bassik
Alberto Bartesaghi
Nicholas Ashton
Daniel Arango
Shan Andrews
Natasha Roy
Leo Tsai
Dave Alonso
Laurel Screven
Su-Chun Zhang
Ramnik Xavier
Yuanchao Xue
Courtney Wright
Nicholas Wood
Thomas Wichmann
Beatrice Weykopf
Andrew West
Christine Weber-Schmidt
Michael Ward
Allen Wang
Levi Waldron
Laura Volpicelli-Daley
Richard Wade-Martins
Thierry Voet
Elizabeth Villa
Miquel Vila
Michele Vendruscolo
Peter Vangheluwe
David Van Valen
Louis-Eric Trudeau
Robert Turner
Kate Trimble
Julianna Tomlinson
Lachlan Thompson
Bernard Thienpont
Maria de Lourdes Tansey
Michael Tadross
Per Svenningsson
James Surmeier
Lorenz Studer
David Sulzer
Peter Strick
William Stauffer
Christine Stadelmann
Maria Grazia Spillantini
Frank Soldner
Scott Soderling
Yoland Smith
Andrew Singleton
Tatyana Simuni
Ellen Sidransky
Peter Shaw
Ashley Seifert
Nicola Segata
Helen Schwerdt
Michael Schwarzschild
Jackson Schumacher
Brenda Schulman
Michael Schlossmacher
Clemens Scherzer
Anthony Schapira
Timothy Sampson
Sara Salama
Mina Ryten
Timothy Ryan
Maxime Rousseaux
Lilia Rodriguez
Donald Rio
Karin Reinisch
Samara Reck-Peterson
Christos Proukakis
Matthias Prigge
Joseph Powell
Kathleen Poston
Janna Jernigan Posey
Federica Pinto
Frances Platt
Weiyi Peng
Suzanne Pfeffer
Haydeh Payami
Sergiu Pasca
Loukia Parisiadou
Clare Parish
Noah Palm
Hayla Ollison
Catherine Oikonomou
Alyssa O’Grady
Jose Obeso
Laura Niedernhofer
Alexandra Nelson
Ken Nakamura
Darren Moore
Miratul Muqit
Brit Mollenhauer
William (Bill) Mobley
Nicola Mercuri
Kalpana Merchant
Cláudia Mendes
Konstantinos (Dinos) Meletis
Heidi McBride
Tina Matos
Sarkis Mazmanian
Sascha Martens
Roberta Marongiu
Ken Marek
Peter Magill
James Maas
Joseph Lyons
Rodger Liddle
Joshua Levin
Andres Leschziner
Talia Lerner
Michael Lee
Steven Lee
Michael Lazarou
Jeffrey Kordower
Sofia Koletsi
Stefan Knapp
Agnete Kirkeby
Deniz Kirik
Vikram Khurana
Zayd Khaliq
Ann Kennedy
Michael Kaplitt
Johannes Jungverdorben
Jennifer Johnston
Benjamin Johnson
Zane Jaunmuktane
Johan Jakobsson
James Hurley
Frances Hundley
Javier Hoyo Perez
Mark Howe
Dirk Hockemeyer
Erika Holzbaur
Tom Hnasko
Warren Hirst
Michael Higley
Michael Henderson
Jacquelyn Haytayan
Franz-Ulrich Hartl
J. Wade Harper
Ashley Harms
John Hardy
David Hafler
Glenda Halliday
Kallol Gupta
Samantha Gruenheid
Scott Grafton
Viviana Gradinaru
Elena Gracheva
Ian Ganley
Harini Gangadharan
Sonia Gandhi
Adriana Galvan
Molly Gale Hammell
Xiang-Dong Fu
Judith Frydman
April Frazier
Andrew (Drew) Fox
Shawn Ferguson
Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego
Mel Feany
Robert Fagiewicz
Cagla Eroglu
Robert Edwards
Steve Dowdy
Janelle Drouin-Ouellet
Xianjun Dong
Dan Dombeck
Donato Di Monte
Michel Desjardins
Michela Deleidi
Pietro De Camilli
Ted Dawson
Veronique Daniels
Yang Dan
Gist Croft
Stephanie Cragg
Mark Cookson
Rui Costa
Hong-Yuan Chu
Xiqun Chen
Rui Chang
Timothy Chan
Sreeganga Chandra
Laura Castilla-Vallmanya
Nicole Calakos
Nicholas Buitrago-Pocasangre
Andreea Bostan
Cornelis Blauwendraat
Guy Boeckxstaens
Fabio Blandini
Joel Blanchard
Thomas Biederer
Mark Bevan
Roger Barker
Helen Bateup
Jane Balster
Veerle Baekelandt
Enrico Bagnoli
Rajeshwar Awatramani
Cecilia Arlehamn
Benjamin Arenkiel
Silvia Arber
Mathieu Almeida
Dario Alessi
Johnson Agniswamy
Stein Aerts
Monther Abu-Remaileh
David Sulzer
Peter Strick
William Stauffer
Christine Stadelmann
Maria Grazia Spillantini
Frank Soldner
Scott Soderling
Yoland Smith
Andrew Singleton
Tatyana Simuni
Ellen Sidransky
Peter Shaw
Ashley Seifert
Nicola Segata
Helen Schwerdt
Michael Schwarzschild
Jackson Schumacher
Brenda Schulman
Michael Schlossmacher
Clemens Scherzer
Anthony Schapira
Timothy Sampson
Sara Salama
Mina Ryten
Timothy Ryan
Maxime Rousseaux
Lilia Rodriguez
Donald Rio
Karin Reinisch
Samara Reck-Peterson
Christos Proukakis
Matthias Prigge
Joseph Powell
Kathleen Poston
Janna Jernigan Posey
Federica Pinto
Frances Platt
Weiyi Peng
Suzanne Pfeffer
Haydeh Payami
Sergiu Pasca
Loukia Parisiadou
Clare Parish
Noah Palm
Hayla Ollison
Catherine Oikonomou
Alyssa O’Grady
Jose Obeso
Laura Niedernhofer
Alexandra Nelson
Ken Nakamura
Darren Moore
Miratul Muqit
Brit Mollenhauer
William (Bill) Mobley
Nicola Mercuri
Kalpana Merchant
Cláudia Mendes
Konstantinos (Dinos) Meletis
Heidi McBride
Tina Matos
Sarkis Mazmanian
Sascha Martens
Roberta Marongiu
Ken Marek
Peter Magill
James Maas
Joseph Lyons
Rodger Liddle
Joshua Levin
Andres Leschziner
Talia Lerner
Michael Lee
Steven Lee
Michael Lazarou
Jeffrey Kordower
Sofia Koletsi
Stefan Knapp
Agnete Kirkeby
Deniz Kirik
Vikram Khurana
Zayd Khaliq
Ann Kennedy
Michael Kaplitt
Johannes Jungverdorben
Jennifer Johnston
Benjamin Johnson
Zane Jaunmuktane
Johan Jakobsson
James Hurley
Frances Hundley
Javier Hoyo Perez
Mark Howe
Dirk Hockemeyer
Erika Holzbaur
Tom Hnasko
Warren Hirst
Michael Higley
Michael Henderson
Jacquelyn Haytayan
Franz-Ulrich Hartl
J. Wade Harper
Ashley Harms
John Hardy
David Hafler
Glenda Halliday
Kallol Gupta
Samantha Gruenheid
Scott Grafton
Viviana Gradinaru
Elena Gracheva
Ian Ganley
Harini Gangadharan
Sonia Gandhi
Adriana Galvan
Molly Gale Hammell
Xiang-Dong Fu
Judith Frydman
April Frazier
Andrew (Drew) Fox
Shawn Ferguson
Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego
Mel Feany
Robert Fagiewicz
Cagla Eroglu
Robert Edwards
Steve Dowdy
Janelle Drouin-Ouellet
Xianjun Dong
Dan Dombeck
Donato Di Monte
Michel Desjardins
Michela Deleidi
Pietro De Camilli
Ted Dawson
Veronique Daniels
Yang Dan
Gist Croft
Stephanie Cragg
Mark Cookson
Rui Costa
Hong-Yuan Chu
Xiqun Chen
Rui Chang
Timothy Chan
Sreeganga Chandra
Laura Castilla-Vallmanya
Nicole Calakos
Nicholas Buitrago-Pocasangre
Andreea Bostan
Cornelis Blauwendraat
Guy Boeckxstaens
Fabio Blandini
Joel Blanchard
Thomas Biederer
Mark Bevan
Roger Barker
Helen Bateup
Jane Balster
Veerle Baekelandt
Enrico Bagnoli
Rajeshwar Awatramani
Cecilia Arlehamn
Benjamin Arenkiel
Silvia Arber
Mathieu Almeida
Dario Alessi
Johnson Agniswamy
Stein Aerts
Monther Abu-Remaileh
The CRN is a program of the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, with a mission to serve the broader research ecosystem by building shared resources and enabling an infrastructure that accelerates progress for everyone.
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