08/27/2010 - MJFF is dismayed by this week’s ruling. On behalf of Parkinson’s patients and their loved ones, we stand with the majority of Americans who believe in the scientific freedom to pursue all promising avenues toward finding cures.
08/24/2010 - Please join MJFF's Vice President of Research Programs, Todd Sherer, PhD, as keynote speaker at the Northwestern University Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center's 10th Annual Parkinson's Disease Patient and Family Symposium.
08/23/2010 - The Birmingham News - The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a clinical site for PPMI, MJFF's landmark study to find biomarkers of Parkinson's disease.
08/22/2010 - Nature Video - Brian Fiske, PhD, of The Michael J. Fox Foundation is featured in a video by the journal Nature on recent findings that blocking the action of the LRRK2 protein prevents some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a pre-clinical model.
08/18/2010 - New York Times - In a letter to the editor, MJFF's CEO Katie Hood explains the critical role of biomarkers in the development of transformative treatments for PD. The letter is in response to recent news about the discovery of an Alzheimer's biomarker.
08/18/2010 - Nature - Neurotrophic factors continue to hold promise as transformative therapies for PD but delivering them to the brain remains a challenge. An article in Nature discusses research projects that aim to overcome the delivery challenge, including those funded by MJFF.
07/13/2010 - Podcast - In the first of a two part series on the possible causes of PD, Dave Iverson talks to Dr. William Langston of the Parkinson's Institute about the current state of research in this area, with a special focus on envirnomental risk factors.
MJFF is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today.
Read Progress, our 2009 Annual Report
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