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Neurological Disease Research

The Search for a Cure

About 1 million Americans have Parkinson’s, and more than 50,000 new cases are diagnosed annually. University of Georgia Professor Anumantha Kanthasamy has a plan to fight back.

Armed with with nearly $50M in federal funding, Kanthasamy and his researchers at the Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research have the resources to take on the disease.

“We need to detect Parkinson’s disease much sooner, which means we need to identify its diagnostic markers,” said Kanthasamy, who’s appointed in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. “We also need new therapeutics to stop Parkinson’s from progressing. To do that, we must understand more about the disease’s underlying mechanisms.”

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