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Parkinson's Disease: Research Leaders and Landscape

The most active researchers, institutions, and subtopics in Parkinson's Disease, from recent PubMed records. Public authorship only, every figure verifiable by PMID.

Analyzed 600 recent PubMed papers (2021-2026) matching "Parkinson disease alpha-synuclein treatment". Source: NLM PubMed. Generated July 2026.

Top research leaders (by recent publication volume)

#ResearcherAffiliationPapers
1Wei JiansheHenan University6
2Batiha Gaber El-SaberDamanhour University5
3Luo WenMcGill University5
4Liu TingtingHenan University4
5Liu YangChangchun University of Chinese Medicine4
6Duong Michael TranUniversity of Pennsylvania4
7Hattori NobutakaJuntendo University4
8Dettmer UlfBrigham and Women's Hospital4
9Shlaifer IrinaMcGill University4
10Chinnathambi SubashchandraboseNational Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Hos4
11Gan-Or ZivThe Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital)4
12Simuni TanyaNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine4
13Chen RongJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine4
14Wang NingJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine3
15Wang HaoHuaihe Hospital of Henan University3
16Khandelwal PulkitUniversity of Pennsylvania3
17Ramalingam NagendranBrigham and Women's Hospital3
18Kondrataviciute LauraUniversity of Toronto3

Ranked by recent publication volume; names not yet disambiguated and not citation-weighted. The full brief adds ORCID disambiguation, citation weighting, and clinical-trial investigator data.

Leading institutions

College of Medicine (19), College of Pharmacy (15), University of Pennsylvania (11), Mayo Clinic (9), McGill University (9), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Researc (8), Henan University (6), Toronto Western Hospital (6), University of California (5), Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (5)

Active subtopics

Parkinson Disease (280), alpha-Synuclein (216), Mice (88), Disease Models, Animal (85), Neuroprotective Agents (76), Dopaminergic Neurons (65), Oxidative Stress (56), Mice, Inbred C57BL (56), Brain (48), Signal Transduction (45), Rats (44)

Top journals

Molecular neurobiology (19), International journal of molecular sciences (17), NPJ Parkinson's disease (16), bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (12), Journal of Parkinson's disease (11), Scientific reports (10)

Representative recent papers

Targeting Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease: Emerging Natural and Synthetic Therapeutic Strategies. (2026) · PMID 42468577

Targeting Sirtuin Signaling in Parkinson's Disease and Neurodegeneration: Molecular Insights and Translational Potential. (2026) · PMID 42467143

Identification of divergent organ-specific gene and protein expression signatures for mitochondrial function, inflammatory respons (2026) · PMID 42467129

Alpha-synuclein overexpression reduces neural activity within a basal ganglia vocal nucleus in a zebra finch model. (2026) · PMID 42461894

The conundrum of alpha-synuclein antibody failures in Parkinson's disease: a narrative review of mechanisms and alternative metabo (2026) · PMID 42459575

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