We are excited to announce two new competitive #FundingOpportunities under the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) for research teams addressing high-priority questions in #ParkinsonsDisease. These #grants will support multidisciplinary, international, and multi-institutional teams working to accelerate the pace of discovery for #PD and drive new ideas into the R&D pipeline. Letters of Intent will open in early 2025. 🗓 Learn more about the CRN and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/gwDatAMX #CRNFundingOpportunity
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ASAP is a global research initiative accelerating the pace of discovery for #ParkinsonsDisease.
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ASAP is a global research initiative accelerating the pace of discovery for #ParkinsonsDisease. We do this through collaboration, resource generation, and data sharing. #openscience. Follow us on Bluesky @asapresearch.bsky.social.
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Enhanced activation of kinase activity in LRRK2 is associated with #ParkinsonsDisease. In their preprint, Team Reck-Peterson presents the development of LRRK2-selective type-II kinase inhibitors, which were designed using a combinatorial chemistry approach 🧪 Read their #preprint to learn more about how these inhibitors: https://lnkd.in/gbTjqEFs
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We are celebrating members of the Single Cell Mulit(omics) working group as our October Network Spotlight 💡They generated a guide on how to write README files for code. Check out the guide on Zenodo: https://lnkd.in/g_C44XyY
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Sharing data in publicly accessible repositories is a key component of the FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship, however, data associated with publications are often not made publicly available. Our new #blog series, The Stories that Drive ASAP's Open Science Policies, by Dana Cobb Lewis, PhD, highlights the critical role of data sharing to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by allowing others to build upon the work of those who came before 🔬 Click the link to learn more: https://lnkd.in/etByeR6G
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Don't miss the October installment of the LRRK2 Central #webinar series featuring Esther Sammler from the University of Dundee TODAY at 1 pm ET. Use the link below to register🧪 https://lnkd.in/gcxB6gHd
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We are pleased to announce the launch of Discover ASAP. Our new video series expands beyond Protocol Particulars to showcase key findings and valuable tools across the ASAP network, including datasets, software and code, protocols, and lab materials. Explore our first three videos now, and stay tuned for new content released monthly on our YouTube channel. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gDwYgeAd
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Almost 80% of #ParkinsonsDisease patients develop cognitive and psychiatric impairments over the course of the disease. In this #publication, CRN Team Biederer investigates the impact of alpha-synuclein aggregation in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), a brain region that plays a role in cognition and emotional processing 🧠 They show that formation of alpha-synuclein aggregates does not lead to cell death in the BLA, but synaptic architecture is significantly altered in cortico-amygdala and thalamo-amygdala presynaptic terminals and postsynaptic densities with synuclein aggregates. These changes to the synaptic architecture of the BLA could potentially contribute to behavioral impairment and amygdala dysfunction observed in synucleinopathies like #PD 🧪 Read CRN Team Biederer's recent publication: https://lnkd.in/gUcPD5eW
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We are excited to contribute to and support the LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange (LITE), which The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research launched last week under the leadership of Dario Alessi, PhD, a member of ASAP's Collaborative Research Network from the University of Dundee. LITE is a collaborative effort, connecting scientists from academia and industry to identify critical biomarkers and support innovative therapeutic approaches for targeting the #ParkinsonsDisease associated gene, LRRK2.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation is embarking on a major new initiative to rapidly expedite development of therapeutic strategies targeting LRRK2. Called the LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange (LITE), the program, which will include tens of millions of dollars of grant support, focuses on bridging basic science advances to industry-led drug development. LRRK2 is a gene that makes a protein that helps control different activities inside our cells, like how they communicate and clean up waste. Mutations in the LRRK2 gene were first linked to PD 20 years ago, and they are now understood to be the most common causes of inherited PD. The mutations hyperactivate LRRK2, triggering cellular dysfunction that leads to PD. Researchers are looking for strategies to reduce LRRK2 hyperactivity, which would help the four percent of people with inherited LRRK2 mutations. Research also suggests LRRK2 therapies could have much broader use, helping people without mutations as well. LITE will be led by Dario Alessi, PhD, a global leader in kinase research who runs a lab at the University of Dundee. The program will focus both on supporting therapeutic approaches as well as identifying LRRK2-specific biomarkers, which could measure the effect of potential LRRK2-based treatments. Learn more about LITE: https://bit.ly/3UfPre2
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Dissecting the role of anatomically or molecularly defined basal ganglia subcircuits is critical for linking how disease processes give rise to circuit dysfunction and specific constellations of symptoms in #PD 🔬 In this #preprint, CRN Team Surmeier used single-nucleus transcriptomics to demonstrate that the SNr, the output nucleus of the basal ganglia, is comprised of genetically distinct, topographically organized subclasses. These subclasses project to distinct targets and receive inputs from different striatal subregions. Importantly, Team Surmeier found that the subclasses are conserved in human brains. This study shows that the detailed anatomical architecture of parallel basal ganglia loops exists within a broader molecularly organized framework comprised of genetically distinct basal ganglia output subclasses with different circuit connectivity 🧠 Read CRN Team Surmeier's recent preprint here: https://lnkd.in/dXqkeYeU
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🚨LOI submissions for the CRN 2025 Technical Track Funding Opportunity opening early 2025! 💸 Awarded teams will receive funding of up to $2M per year for three years. 🔬Teams awarded within the Technical Track will focus on supporting the development of novel, sustainable tools to accelerate validation and therapeutic R&D for emerging targets identified through ASAP discoveries. 📆LOI submissions open in early 2025 and close in mid-2025. Successful projects will receive funding decisions in early 2026. For more information, visit: https://lnkd.in/gwgQtbqq #CRNFundingOpportunity #grants