# Pacific Udall Center

> **NIH NIH P50** · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $50,000

## Abstract

Project Abstract
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a growing global health problem that causes untold suffering for patients and their
loved ones, and challenges health care systems. Motor symptoms are the classic features for which there are
effective interventions; however, non-motor symptoms, especially cognitive impairment, are very common, may
precede motor symptoms, and do not respond well to existing therapies. Solutions will come only from
research. The Pacific Udall Center (PUC), one of nine NINDS-funded Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for
Parkinson's Disease Research, is our response to this research imperative. PUC is committed to contributing
to the long term, ambitious goal of developing the knowledge and tools for optimally targeted and timed
interventions for cognitive impairment in PD. Our innovative three Cores and three Projects are structured
around genetic risk for different types of cognitive impairment in PD. Our research focuses on molecular
pathology and mechanisms of disease, investigation of neural systems using novel brain imaging, and
mechanisms of balance and gait problems, in part an expression of cognitive impairment, in genetically-defined
subgroups of patients with PD. Each of our research goals is ranked among the highest priority
recommendations of two recent NINDS Conferences: Parkinson's Disease 2014: Advancing Research,
Improving Lives and the 2013 Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias: Research Challenges and
Opportunities (which included PD dementia).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10241026
- **Project number:** 3P50NS062684-11S2
- **Recipient organization:** STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Thomas J Montine
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $50,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-15 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10241026

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10241026, Pacific Udall Center (3P50NS062684-11S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10241026. Licensed CC0.

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