Parkinson’s Foundation and Tasso Announce Partnership to Accelerate Parkinson’s Disease Genetics Research
The Parkinson’s Foundation and Tasso, Inc. today announced a partnership to expand and accelerate genetic research into Parkinson’s disease (PD).
- The Parkinson’s Foundation and Tasso, Inc. today announced a partnership to expand and accelerate genetic research into Parkinson’s disease (PD).
- The partnership leverages Tasso’s patient-centric, end-to-end sample collection and logistics platform to enable data collection for a landmark international genetics study by the Parkinson’s Foundation: PD GENEration: Mapping the Future of Parkinson’s .
- The goal of the research is to screen the collected samples for mutations among select, clinically relevant PD genes.
- “Tasso and the Parkinson’s Foundation share a mission to accelerate life-changing research,” said Ben Casavant, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Tasso.