Yaroslav Zaplatnikov

I am a PhD candidate at the University Medical Center Göttingen working on integrative cross-omics approaches for the early detection and prediction of Parkinson’s disease progression. My research focuses on biomarker discovery in PPMI cohorts, with particular emphasis on CSF and plasma proteomics, prodromal Parkinson’s disease, phenoconversion, and the integration of molecular data with clinical and imaging markers. I hold an M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Bonn and have a background in genomics, NGS, statistical analysis, and bioinformatics, including R- and Python-based data analysis. My broader research interest is to identify robust and reproducible molecular signatures that can improve disease stratification, prognosis, and clinical trial design in Parkinson’s disease.