Domestic
In the U.S., 23 Clinical Research Consortium for Spinocerebellar Ataxia institutions will participate in Aim 1 of this study. Those include:
*Houston Methodist is the coordinating site for the study.
The University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and the University of Florida will conduct Magnetic Resonance Imaging/MRS studies of Aim 2.
International
The European Ataxia Study Group (EASG) is the major European multinational consortium formed to conduct clinical research on ataxia. EASG comprises more than 50 ataxia investigators from institutions across Europe and even a few in northern Africa. The University Hospital of Bonn Bonn, Germany and the Brain & Spine Institute at the Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, France will serve as the lead coordinating centers for the European institutions and will conduct the Magnetic Resonance Imaging/MRS studies of Aim 2 in Europe. They will receive referrals from all European investigators.
Some of those institutions include:
University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
UCL, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
CMRR, CHRU Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier, France
Fondazione-IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Zala County Hospital, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Federico II University Naples, Italy
University of Cantabria and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Santander, Spain
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
University Hospital of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hôpital Erasme-Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso (FGF), University of Azores, Portugal
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
University of Essen, Essen, Germany
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
University of Santander, Santander, Spain
University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
2mt Software GmbH, Ulm, Germany
IXICO, London, United Kingdom
Evotek AG, Hamburg, Germany
Hôpital d’Adultes de la Timone, Marseille, France
CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Hôpital Charles Nicolle, Rouen, France
CHU d’Angers, Angers, France
Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Institute of Neurology Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
National Research Center, Cairo Egypt
Rabat Instituts, Rabat, Morocco