Coordinating a new approach to basic research into Parkinson's disease

Randy Schekman; Ekemini Au Riley

doi:10.7554/eLife.51167

Coordinating a new approach to basic research into Parkinson's disease

Elife. 2019 Sep 25:8:e51167. doi: 10.7554/eLife.51167.

Authors

Randy Schekman¹, Ekemini Au Riley²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.
² Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Washington, United States.

Abstract

The Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) initiative is building an international network of researchers to improve our understanding of the biology underlying Parkinson's disease. Developing a better understanding of how the disease originates and progresses will, we hope, lead to new therapies. The ASAP initiative will incentivize collaboration between the existing PD research community and other researchers and will be committed to open-science practices.

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; human biology; medicine; neurodegenerative disorders; neuroscience; none; open science; organization of research; philanthropy; team science.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / organization & administration*
Humans
International Cooperation
Parkinson Disease / pathology*
Parkinson Disease / physiopathology*