New research to target air pollution as a potential trigger for Parkinson’s

New research to target air pollution as a potential trigger for Parkinson’s

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Chemicals & Chemistry -- (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) -- The Department of Defense has awarded a multi-institutional team of scientists a series of grants totaling $4.37 million to investigate the potential role of airborne pollutants as triggers of Parkinson’s disease via the nose.

“It increasingly appears that a complicated mix of biological and environmental factors contribute to Parkinson’s,” said study lead Patrik Brundin, M.D., Ph.D., director of VARI’s Center for Neurodegenerative Science. “Unraveling this tangled web will go a long way in helping us develop ways to evaluate an individual’s risk for the disease as well as developing therapies to prevent, slow or stop its onset and progress.”

To undertake the four-year study, Brundin has teamed up with collaborators Caleb Finch, Ph.D., the ARCO/F. Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging and University Professor at University of Southern California’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology; Honglei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine; and Todd Morgan, Ph.D., Research Professor of Gerontology also …

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(2017-12-01), New research to target air pollution as a potential trigger for Parkinson’s, Chemicals & Chemistry, 1215, ISSN: 1944-1525, BUTTER® ID: 014776104