A research team led by Mizzou Professor Dmitri Kireev is a forerunner in the challenge to find an effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Kireev and several postdoctoral students competed in the first Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-Finding Experiments (CACHE) Challenge hosted by the Structural Genomics Consortium in Toronto. Utilizing FRASE-bot, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered software developed by Kireev’s team, they discovered molecular hits for the most common mutated gene associated with Parkinson’s disease.