The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has awarded Southern Research scientist Rita Cowell a $150,000 grant to study specific aspects of Parkinson’s disease.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has awarded Southern Research scientist Rita Cowell a $150,000 grant to study specific aspects of Parkinson’s disease.
The grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation is Cowell’s third from the organization. All of these projects aim to find ways to prevent cell loss in people with Parkinson’s disease.
Cowell, a fellow and chair of the Neuroscience Department in Southern Research’s Drug Discovery division, said her investigation will classify different types of neurons in the brain and determine how vulnerable they are to cell death. Cowell’s team aims to pinpoint the subtypes of neurons that are lost in brain tissue samples from Parkinson’s disease rodent models and humans who had the disease.
“Basically, we are going to use gene markers to identify and investigate whether the neurons that die in a mouse model are the same neurons that die in people,” she said. “This could be really informative because if only one group of the neurons in the mouse matches what is going on in the human, that’s the only group we should be studying.”
Parkinson’s affects an estimated 1 million people with around 60,000 new cases diagnosed annually in the United States, typically in people over 60, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation.
UAB has also received funds from the Michael J. Fox Foundation.The UAB-led research team examined several different structural forms of alpha-synuclein, a protein in the brain, to determine which was most responsible for damage that leads to Parkinson's.
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