Contributions
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Accolades
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In the News
Managing Misfolded Proteins to Prevent Parkinson’s Disease
10/02/2026 — In a new team science project funded by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), Yale School of Medicine researchers hope to shed new light on what happens to alpha-synuclein in between nerve cells—and what determines where it ends up. To try to find that balance, Strittmatter and colleagues plan to approach the problem from different angles.
Yale-led team of scientists works toward cure for Parkinson’s disease
05/28/2026 — Dr. Stephen Strittmatter and Yale Medical School professors Dr. Eric Hoyeon Song and Le Zhang are working with colleagues at Vanderbilt and Columbia universities to focus on how Parkinson’s works at a molecular level.
MJFF and ASAP Invest $261M in Global Network for Parkinson’s Research
04/30/2026 — Parkinson’s News Today reports that ASAP and The Michael J. Fox Foundation are investing $261 million to expand the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) to better understand what drives Parkinson’s disease and to accelerate the development of more personalized therapies.
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s and The Michael J. Fox Foundation Expand Global Research Initiative with $261M Investment Toward Personalized Treatments
04/28/2026 — Today, Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), in partnership with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), announced $261 million in new grant funding for the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) to map the biological blueprint of Parkinson’s disease and build a standardized toolkit of global research resources that are needed to turn discoveries into treatments.
