Ongoing initiatives in Neurodegeneration at the University of Iowa:

Prefrontal Cortex, Cognition, and Speech in Parkinson’s disease (PRECIS-PD) 

• Kumar Narayanan, MD, PhD (PI)
• Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD
• Jeremy Greenlee, MD, PhD
• Ergun Uc, MD

Metabolism in Neurodegeneration (MIND)

• Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD
• Vincent Magnotta, PhD
• Kumar Narayanan, MD, PhD 
• Alejandro Pezzulo, MD
• Jordan Schultz, PharmD
• Jacob Simmering, PhD
• Dan Weeks, PhD
• Michael Welsh, MD

Sleep, Mood, and Arousal in Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia (SMASH) 

• Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD (PI)
• Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD
• Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhD
• Natalie Denburg, PhD
• Marco Hefti, MD
• Veena Prahlad, PhD

Iowa’s Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) 

• Ted Abel, PhD (PI)
• Lane Strathearn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP (PI)
• Alexander Bassuk, MD, PhD
• Peggy Nopoulos, MD
• Richard J.H. Smith, MD