UGA researchers use bugs to battle Parkinson’s

Ellis Goud | Mar 21, 2025

From family members, to friends, to beloved members of society, Parkinson’s disease impacts more than 10 million people around the world, following just behind Alzheimer’s as the most common neurodegenerative disorder in the U.S.

Anumantha Kanthasamy, a neurotoxicologist and PD researcher at the University of Georgia’s Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research, uses a unique approach in finding a therapeutic medicine for Parkinson’s disease: bugs.

Read the full story on The Red and Black.

Pictured: Anumantha Kanthasamy poses for a portrait in his lab at the College of Veterinary Medicine on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia, on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Kanthasamy is the director of the Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research, a John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair for Parkinson’s Research, Georgia Research Eminent Scholar and a UGA professor. He researches the role of environmental neurotoxins in the development of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. (Photo/Merrielle Gatlin)