Thomas H. Christopher Center for Parkinson's Research

Research at the Thomas H. Christopher Center for Parkinson's Research at Sun Health Research Institute involves a multidisciplinary approach toward the goal of understanding and treating Parkinson’s disease. Our expert faculty and staff actively look into the cause, cure and prevention of Parkinson’s and utilize state-of-the-art techniques throughout their research.  These exacting standards provide a direct mechanism for translational laboratory-to-patient research which makes our research institute one of the world’s best.

Clinical Research at the Thomas H. Christopher Center for Parkinson's Research is composed of world-renowned neurologists, physicians and professional staff working as an interdisciplinary team to conduct groundbreaking clinical trials in the field of Parkinson’s disease. Clinical research involves human participants and is a component of medical and health research intended to improve the understanding of disease and lead to discoveries that may prevent or treat illness.