Dear PPMI Participant,
As a researcher, and both the son of a father and the student of a
mentor who both had PD, I am dedicated to finding a cure for PD
in our lifetime.
PPMI is so important for giving the research community access
to the most valuable biologic reagents for better diagnosing and
treating PD. My own work focuses on studying new biomarkers
and therapeutic targets that circulate in cerebrospinal fluid and
blood, and the PPMI samples will allow our work to move forward
much more quickly and with the highest level of precision.
Discovering a biomarker for the progression of PD will not only
represent ways we can diagnose earlier and monitor disease
course, but, even more exciting, will help discover new therapies
and potentially a cure for PD.
Thank you all so much for making this huge gift to this wonderful
program that is already bearing fruit for new treatments and
hopefully a near-future cure for Parkinson’s.
Dennis Steindler, PhD
Professor of Medical Research
University of Florida College of Medicine
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