Clinical trialNCT06719583RecruitingObservational

Black and African Americans Connections to Parkinson's Disease (BLAAC PD)

SponsorMichael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's ResearchEnrollment2,000Parkinson Disease

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

BLAAC PD is a research study to understand what Parkinson's disease looks like for Black and African American communities. BLAAC PD is happening at research centers around the United States. The study is part of the Global Parkinson's Genetics Program (GP2). GP2 is a research project working to transform understanding of the genetics of Parkinson's disease and make that knowledge globally relevant.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Lana Chahine, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator
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Sites

12 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
David Standaert, MD, PhDMarissa Dean, MD
Recruiting
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Ashley Rawls, MDLauren Fanty, MD
Recruiting
Rush University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Deborah Hall, MD
Recruiting
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mahesh Padmananban, MDTao Xie, MD, PhD
Recruiting
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Julia Staisch, MDSarah Breaux, MD
Recruiting
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Elizabeth Disbrow, PhD
Recruiting
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Lisa Shulman, MDRainer von Coelln, MD
Recruiting
Kaiser Permanente Midatlantic States
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Active, not recruiting
Washington University in St. Louis
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Erin Foster, PhD, OTD-LScott Norris, MD
Recruiting
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Camilla Kilbane, MDMohamed Elkasaby, MD
Recruiting
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Andrew Ameri, MDVanessa Hinson, MD
Recruiting
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
Erin Furr Stimming, MDNatalia Pessoa Rocha, PhDShivika Chandra, MD
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 16 Nov 2020
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2027
Completion: 31 Dec 2027
Last update posted: 27 Feb 2026
Registered enrollment: 2,000
Registry id: NCT06719583

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.