NINDS Awards Almost $24 Million to Support Parkinson's Disease Research Centers of ExcellenceFriday, Dec 4, 1998
Three top university hospitals will receive a total of almost $24 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS) to advance understanding of Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders. Investigators at Emory
University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will spend the next five years
unraveling the cause or causes of Parkinson's disease and seeking new ways to diagnose and treat it. They will also provide
state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary training for young scientists preparing for research careers investigating Parkinson's
disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.