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UTSA To Participate On Parkinson's Research 10:07 AM CST Wednesday The University of Texas at San Antonio has teamed up with Northwestern University and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center-Memphis to form one of 12 centers of excellence for Parkinson's research. The center will be located on the campus of Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., but UTSA biology professor Charles Wilson will head up one of the four project teams from San Antonio. He will use mathematical models and computer simulations to help understand the cellular properties that play a key role in Parkinson's and related diseases. "We would like to see the differences in normal and abnormal activity so we could try to target therapies and develop pharmaceutics to assist these patients," Wilson says. Parkinson's is a progressive neurological disorder that results from the degeneration of the neurons in the brain that controls movement. In the United States alone, at least 500,000 people suffer from Parkinson's disease and 50,000 new cases are reported annually. Parkinson's usually affects people over the age of 50 and affects men and women in equal numbers. The new center is funded by a five year, $5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. SOURCE: San Antonio Business Journal, TX http://tinyurl.com/ur3d * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn