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The $412,500 grant throug the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 isfor Parkinson’d disease research focusing on developing a therapeutixc vaccine for the neurological disorder. The two-yeard grant will support efforts by researchers inthe university’s Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, led by principal investigator Rowenj Chang, a professor of protein Co-investigator is Dr. Chuantao Jiang, an assistanyt research professor at the Chang plans to add one or two researcherzs to the team of scientists in his lab with the The research will target a protein associated withthe disease, known as alpha-synucle.
Chang’s vaccinse would strengthen theimmune system’s ability to suppres the activity of alpha-synuclein through the production of antibodiex and, if successful, could slow the progress of Parkinson’s.