Who Have We Funded?

PDF is proud to have contributed to the important work of these impressive and promising scientists.  Use the links below to view awardees from the last six years or read the research abstracts of our most recent recipients.

 

• 2009 - 2010 International Research Grants Program and Research Fellowship Program Awardees
• 2008 - 2009 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees
• 2007 - 2008 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees
• 2006 - 2007 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees
• 2005 - 2006 International Research Grants and Fellowships Awardees
• 2004 - 2005 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees
• 2003 - 2004 International Research Grants Program Awardees

2009 - 2010 International Research Grants Program and Research Fellowship Program Awardees

Alessandra Chesi, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Gammon Earhart, Ph.D., P.T.
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Navneet Ammal Kaidery, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY

David Park, Ph.D.
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Hardy Rideout, Ph.D.
Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece

Stefan Sandberg, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Pedro Soldado, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Antonio Strafella, M.D., Ph.D.
Centre of Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Canada

Peter Teismann, Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland

Ryan Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Christian Wider, M.D.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL

Cyrus Zabetian,M.D., M.S.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

2008 – 2009 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees

C. Savio Chan, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Alessandra Chesi, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Simone Engelender, M.D., Ph.D.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Matthew Goldberg, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Ledia F. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Michael Higley, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

David Hinkle, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Milan Joksimovic, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Sandra Lynch, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B.A.
Wadsworth Center, New York State
Department of Health
Albany, NY

Alison McCormack, Ph.D.
The Parkinson’s Institute and
Clinical Center
Sunnyvale, CA

Carlos Moraes, Ph.D.
University of Miami
Miami, FL

David Park, Ph.D.
Ottawa Health Research Institute
Ottawa, Canada

Jean-Christophe Rochet, Ph.D.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

Enrique Torre, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Shaji Theodore, Ph.D.
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Carles Vilariño-Güell, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL

Georg Vogler, Ph.D.
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, CA

Wenbo Zhou, Ph.D.
University of Colorado-Denver
Denver, CO

2007 – 2008 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees

Manolo Carta, Ph.D.
Wallenberg Neuroscience Center
Lund University
Lund, Sweden

Lee Clough, Ph.D.
Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece

Sylvain Doré, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Jane Driver, M.D., M.P.H.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachussetts

Ignacio Fernandez Mata, Ph.D.
University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington

James Foster, Ph.D.
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Matthew Goldberg, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Shigeki Hirano, M.D., Ph.D.
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Manhasset, New York

Syed Imam, M.S., Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

Shilpa Iyer, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Hong Jiang, Ph.D.
Sun Health Research Institute
Sun City, Arizona

Matthew LaVoie, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

David Park, Ph.D.
Ottawa Health Research Institute
Ottawa, Canada

Taslimarif Saiyed, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Cleanthe Spanaki, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Crete
Heraklion, Greece

Esther Wong, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York

Jin Xu, Ph.D.
Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Kui Xu, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, Massachusetts

2006 - 2007 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees

Manolo Carta, Ph.D.
Wallenberg Neuroscience Center Lund University
Lund, Sweden

Daniel Chase, Ph.D.
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Li Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Lee Clough, Ph.D., Leonidis Stefanis, Ph.D.
Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece

Omar El-Agnaf, Ph.D.
United Arab Emirates University
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Emad Eskandar, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Katherine Franz, Ph.D.
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Nicholas Hallworth, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Syed Imam, M.S., Ph.D.
University of Texas Health
Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

George Jackson, M.D., Ph.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California

Changwei Liu, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Aurora, Colorado

Daniel Pack, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois

David Park, Ph.D.
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Jean-Christophe Rochet, Ph.D.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

Peter Teismann, Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland

Andrew West, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Xiaoxi Zhuang, Ph.D.
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

 

2005 - 2006 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees

Amy Allen, Ph.D.*
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee

Srinivas Bharath, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences
Bangalore, India

Li Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

François Gonon, Ph.D.
Université Bordeaux 2
Bordeaux, France

Penelope Hallett, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Nicholas Hallworth, Ph.D.*
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Sabine Hilfiker, Ph.D.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Granada, Spain

Kari Hoyt, Ph.D.
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Jinghua Jin, Ph.D.*
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Daniel Lévesque, Ph.D.
Laval University
Quebec, Canada

Gil Levkowitz, Ph.D.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

LiPing Liang, M.D.
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado

Heather Melrose, Ph.D.*
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida

Meir Plotnik, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel

Alexia Pollack, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Dean Pountney, Ph.D.
Griffith University
Gold Coast MC, Australia

Dianbo Qu, Ph.D.*
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Cleanthe Spanaki, M.D., Ph.D.*
University of Crete
Heraklio, Greece

Mihaela Stavarache, M.D.*
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, New York

Ying Tan, M.D., Ph.D.*
University of Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Peter Teismann, Ph.D.
University of Goettingen
Goettingen, Germany

Philip Thomas, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Mathias Toft, M.D.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway

Konstantinos Vekrellis, Ph.D.
Foundation of Biomedical Research, Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece

*Denotes Post-Doctoral Fellowships

 

2004 - 2005 International Research Grants and Fellowships Program Awardees

J. Paul Bolam, Ph.D.
Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit
Oxford, United Kingdom

Simone Engelender, M.D., Ph.D.
The B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Haifa, Israel

Susan Fox, Ph.D.
Toronto Western Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Julia M. George, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL

Daewoo Lee, Ph.D.
Ohio University
Athens, OH

Daniel LéVesque, Ph.D.
Laval University
Ste-Foy, Canada

Gil Levkowitz, Ph.D.
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

Vasanthy Narayanaswami, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland
Oakland, CA

David Park, Ph.D.
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Emmanuel Pothos, Ph.D.
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Jean-Christophe Rochet, Ph.D.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

Mohan Sapru, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Philip J. Thomas, Ph.D.
U.T. Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Joelle Van der Walt, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Konstantinos Vekrellis, Ph.D.
Foundation of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece

Anthony West, Ph.D
FUHS - The Chicago Medical School
North Chicago, IL

Jin Xu, Ph.D.
Carilas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Boston, MA

Cyrus Zabetian, M.D.
VA Puget Sound Health
Care System
Seattle, WA

 

2003 - 2004 International Research Grants Program Awardees*

Tanya Blekher, Ph.D.
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN

Vincenzo Bonifati, M.D.
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Lorraine Clark, PH.D.
Columbia University
New York, NY

Susan Collette Daubner, PH.D.
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Emad Eskander, M.D.
Massachusetts General
Hospital Boston, MA

Carmelina Gemma, PH.D.
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Ming Juo, M.D., PH.D.
University of California
Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

Günter U. Höglinger, M.D.
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière
Paris, France

Toshinori Hoshi, PH.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Dong-Youn Hwang, PH.D.
McLean Hospital
Belmont, MA

Deepinder Kaur, PH.D.
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, CA Y

Oon-Seong Kim, PH.D.
Burke Medical Research Institute
Cornell University
Peekskill, NY

Christine Klein, M.D.
University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany

Ronald Klein, PH.D.
Louisiana State University Shreveport, LA

He-Jin Lee, PH.D.
The Parkinson’s Institute
Sunnyvale, CA

Paul Lockhart, PH.D.
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL

Ronald J. Mandel, PH.D.
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL

Srinivas Bharath Muchukunte Mukunde, PH.D.
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, CA

David Park, PH.D.
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Hardy Rideout, PH.D.
Columbia University
New York, NY

Jean-Christophe Rochet, PH.D.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

Robert J. Sheaff, PH.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Mei Sun, PH.D.
New England Medical Research Institute
West Roxbury, MA

Malu Tansey, PH.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Miguel Vila, M.D., PH.D.
Columbia University
New York, NY

Barbara Waszczak, PH.D.
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Andrew West, PH.D.
MATTHEW J. FARRER, PH.D.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL

Jay Winkler, PH.D.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena,CA

Zhongmin Xiang, PH.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Luigi Zecca, M.D.
Institute of Biomedical Technologies
Segrate, Italy

*For this funding cycle, PDF was joined by the National Parkinson Foundation. Together, the two foundations awarded a total of $1.2 million to 30 scientists.