Deeply humbled to receive another Notice of Award. Thank you to everyone who believed in me and pushed forward with me. I will keep pursuing discoveries that may help people with Parkinson’s. For now, I return to this sunset I once captured in Mani—and allow myself to dream. 💙
Wonderful to see our paper featured by Northwestern Feinberg News Center.
Woohoo! Our paper was accepted in Nature Communications!
A full-circle moment for me: I began my scientific career studying LRRK2 when little was known about its role in Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology, and this work now links it to selective dopamine neuron vulnerability.
Loukia is attending the CRN ASAP Investigators meeting in Barcelona.
Team Parisiadou had a wonderful time at the ASAP CRN Investigator Meeting in Barcelona—sharing ideas, strengthening collaborations, and discussing new directions in Parkinson’s disease research. Grateful to be part of such an inspiring and collaborative community.
Loukia presents at the Dopamine meeting in Seville!
Wonderful science, sunny city, fantastic food!
Big news for our lab!
Big news! I am thrilled to share that my team has been selected to join the Collaborative Research Network (CRN), powered by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), in partnership with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).
Together, this network is working to map the biological blueprint of Parkinson’s disease and accelerate the path to new treatments.
Over the next three years, our team will be investigating how RNA damage and ribosomal dysfunction contribute to dopamine neuron vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease, with the goal of identifying early mechanisms that may open new therapeutic windows.
Explore all CRN teams at asapcrn.org and our project https://www.asapcrn.org/research-community/teams/parisiadou/
Wonderful news for the Parisiadou Lab: A new NINDS R01 award to support our Parkinson's Disease research!
We were just awarded an NIH NINDS grant to study the molecular pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease. Time to celebrate!!!
Loukia 's work was featured at Northwestern Feinberg Breakthroughs!
A big thank you to the people who believed in me and trusted me when it mattered the most! Also, a big thank you to my trainees, from whom I learned a lot!
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/about/newsletter/2026/04/bt-faculty-profile.html
Northwestern news center highlights a just published JCI study co-authored by Loukia
https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2026/03/16/fda-approved-compound-promotes-neuroprotective-effects-in-parkinsons-disease/
