Uncovering the roots of Parkinson's disease, together
A global basic research initiative
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) is fostering collaboration and resources to better understand the underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease. With scale, transparency, and open access data sharing, we believe we can accelerate the pace of discovery, and inform the path to a cure.
ASAP launched the CRN Cloud, a data-sharing tool designed to advance Parkinson’s disease research by making data easily available to researchers worldwide. The platform initially includes data from a unique human postmortem-derived brain sequencing collection from 156 unique donors. We plan on releasing more data on the platform by the end of this year. Stay tuned!
GP2 announced the seventh data release on the Terra and the Verily® Workbench platforms in collaboration with AMP® PD which includes 9,000+ additional genotyped participants.
iNDI-PD has added new cell lines associated with Parkinson’s disease variants to the Human iPSC catalog through The Jackson Laboratory (JAX). They are publicly available for the research community to use.
Latest News
Supporting the next generation of Parkinson’s disease scientists: 2024 ASAP COSA virtual meeting
ASAP’s annual Celebration of Scientific Achievement (COSA) showcased the outstanding contributions of young investigators across our Collaborative Research Network (CRN). This year’s event attracted over 550 attendees who attended poster presentations from over 140 ASAP young investigators.
Platform launched for sharing brain samples in Parkinson’s research
Parkinson’s News Today reports on the ASAP CRN Cloud, a data-sharing platform that will make data on human brain samples available to researchers around the world.
Art&Science: Parkinson’s Disease Edition
ASAP CRN researcher, Dr. Dorotea Fracchiolla, created a series of two paintings that represent topics that were discussed throughout the 2023 Collaborative Meetings in San Diego (USA) and London (UK).
