Research Community
Research Community

ASAP supports three programs and serves as a member of multiple consortia to advance research for the benefit of the global Parkinson’s disease community.
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Highlights
Highlights

ASAP shares the impact that our initiative, network, and supported programs have had on providing new insights into Parkinson’s disease. Discover news, interviews, awards, and annual impact.
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Open Science
Open Science

ASAP is dedicated to facilitating a research environment where meaningful collaboration, research-enabling resources, and data sharing provides the answers we need to understand, diagnose, and treat Parkinson’s disease. Discover our open science philosophy.
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Tools & Resources
Tools & Resources

ASAP is committed to developing and openly sharing research outputs, including data, code, protocols, and key lab materials, to help the scientific community build upon existing work.
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100,000 Participants and Counting – Massive Global Genetic Dataset Powers Discoveries in Parkinson’s Disease

December 1, 2025

Researchers have reached a major milestone in the effort to understand and treat Parkinson’s disease: more than 100,000 DNA samples from study participants around the world have now been genotyped and sequenced through the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2).

Brain’s Hidden “Junk” – Mysterious RNA Circles Produced by Cells Damaged in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

SciTechDaily discusses a research study by Team Scherzer that identified over 11,000 distinct RNA circles that characterized brain cells implicated in Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

September 18, 2023

Team Scherzer