MSU College of Human Medicine named center of excellence for Parkinson's research

Two major medical colleges will soon have researchers in Grand Rapids working on what could be groundbreaking Parkinson’s disease research funded by a $6.2 million national grant.

According to excerpts from the story:

 A team of researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Cincinnati have been awarded a $6.2 million Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s disease grant. The grant, from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, makes MSU’s College of Human Medicine a major player in research of the degenerative disease.

Two new MSU researchers, Jack Lipton, Ph.D., and Caryl E. Sortwell, Ph.D., will share nearly half of the award with investigators at the University of Cincinnati. The process of transferring control of the Udall Center to MSU will begin next summer when center Director Timothy Collier, PhD., and Kathy Steece-Collier, Ph.D., from the University of Cincinnati join Lipton, Sortwell and the rest of the research team at MSU’s College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids. 

The MSU scientists will conduct their Parkinson’s disease research in the new Van Andel Institute Phase II expansion.

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