The University has received a $2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, officials announced yesterday.
The grant will be used for studying the basic cell biology of Parkinson's disease.
The project involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn's Genomics Institute, including molecular biologist James Eberwine, computational scientist Junhyong Kim and imaging experts Philip Haydon and Jai-Yoon Sul.
The team will work on new ways of targeting the multi-genic nature of Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease is a sickness in the central nervous system in which nerve cells die in areas of the brain that are responsible for voluntary movement and cognition.
The W.M. Keck Foundation is one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations and funds research in many areas.
