Metabolon Partners with the University of Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metabolon, Inc., the global leader in providing metabolomics solutions that advance a wide variety of research, diagnostic, therapeutic development, and precision medicine applications, today announced it is partnering with the University of Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre to identify metabolomic biomarkers related to Parkinson's disease progression and prediction and to detect new therapeutic targets.
- The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC) is a unique multidisciplinary research program at the University of Oxford.
- Through this collaboration, Metabolon will perform global metabolomics on longitudinal serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples collected by OPDC.
- This will enable Metabolon and Oxford to gain insights into the metabolomic changes occurring during Parkinson's disease progression over many years in this deeply phenotyped cohort.
- "We are thrilled to partner with the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre to support their mission to improve research and understanding of the biology of early Parkinson's," said Rohan Hastie, Ph.D., President and CEO of Metabolon.