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Professor Paola Piccini has been awarded a collaborative programme grant entitled PAMIR (Parkinson MR Imaging Repository)

has been awarded a collaborative programme grant entitled PAMIR (Parkinson MR Imaging Repository) from . This is a multi–centre large multimodal dedicated MRI imaging repository in early Parkinson’s patients to assess the diagnostic accuracy and predictive power of novel MRI biomarkers.

 It will consist of an unique virtual PD brain bank containing the largest repository of advanced MRI in the UK and will be fully linked to the clinical, psychometric and genetic database of the Parkinson’s Repository of Biosamples and Networked Datasets (ProBaND), also funded by Parkinson’s UK. 

There will be four coordinating centres in the UK: 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (Professor Paola Piccini), University of Nottingham (Professor Dorothee Auer), University of Glasgow (Dr Donald Grosset) and University of Newcastle (Professor David Burn). The University of Oxford will join later in the year. The project will last 3 years with possible extension to a further 2 years.