Message from Our Director
Welcome to the Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research. As Director, I am excited to invite you to be part of our growing mission to advance discovery, collaboration, and impactful therapeutic strategies in the fight against not just Parkinsonian disorders, but also cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias.
We are actively building a vibrant and diverse community of collaborators. Whether you are a scientist looking to join a multidisciplinary research effort, a graduate or undergraduate student eager to train in a high-impact research setting, or an institutional partner seeking to align with a mission-driven center, we welcome your interest and inquiries.
Indeed, to ensure that CNDR researchers have access to the cutting-edge tools needed to leverage CNDR’s multidisciplinary team-science venture, we are strategically focused on building closely integrated core labs designed to dissect disease mechanisms and gene-environment interactions and to identify minimally invasive biomarkers for early detection and assessing treatment interventions. Together, these novel findings and tools can be tested and validated in models of increasing relevance to humans in our translational discovery pipeline.
To fully realize late Senator Isakson’s vision for a long-lasting center of research excellence, philanthropic and strategic partnerships are essential to our ability to grow, discover, and translate findings into real-world impact. Your support enables us to recruit exceptional talent, expand our capabilities, and pursue bold ideas that can lead to transformative change in brain health.
We believe the greatest breakthroughs happen when people and ideas converge around a shared purpose. You can say that’s the core conviction that fuels our mission. I invite you to explore ways to engage with our Center—through collaboration, training, partnership, or giving—and to join us in shaping the future of neurodegenerative disease research and the discovery of innovative therapies.
Warm regards,
Anumantha Kanthasamy, Ph.D.
John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair for Parkinson’s Research
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
University of Georgia