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Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s and The Michael J. Fox Foundation Expand Global Research Initiative with $261M Investment Toward Personalized Treatments

April 28, 2026

ASAP and 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.

The Role of an Energy-Producing Enzyme in Treating Parkinson’s Disease

Read this article to see how ASAP Team De Camilli discovered that an enzyme called PGK1 has an unexpectedly critical role in the production of chemical energy in brain cells and that boosting its activity may help the brain resist the energy deficits that can lead to Parkinson’s disease.

August 21, 2024

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New Molecular Sensor Tracks Energy Use at the Subcellular Level

Read this article to see how ASAP Team De Camilli and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers developed and tested a high-resolution sensor for tracking the real-time dynamics of ATP levels in cells and within subcellular compartments.

May 16, 2024

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