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Parkinson’s Research: Unlocking Alpha-Synuclein Tracers
23 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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In this episode of POP Profiles, part of the Power Over Parkinson’s series, we sit down with Dr. Jamie Eberling, SVP and Head of Imaging at the Michael J. Fox Foundation, to discuss one of the biggest challenges in Parkinson’s research: developing an alpha-synuclein tracer. Alpha-synuclein is the protein that accumulates in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, but scientists still cannot reliably image it in living patients. Dr. Eberling explains why finding this tracer is so comple...