Patent 10300055 was granted and assigned to Dalhousie University on May, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods are provided for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) in patients bearing mutations in the LRRK2 gene. A therapeutically effective amount of piperazine derivative compounds are employed to inhibit the biological activity of ArfGAP1, inhibition that counteracts the deleterious effects of mutations in, or increased expression of, the LRRK2 protein.