Funding
The Foundation supports research across basic, translational and clinical science to speed breakthroughs that can lead to the creation of new treatments and a better quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease.
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Previously funded studies appear chronologically, with the most recent appearing first.
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Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2008Multimodal assessment of gastric motility in subjects at (pre)clinical stages of Parkinson´s Disease - A pathohistological and functional in-vivo-testing of Braak's pathoanatomical model
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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a sleep disorder that presents with dream-enactments (vigorous movements, speech) during REM sleep. Patients with RBD... -
PD Subtypes, 2007Phenoprofiling PD
Parkinson's disease is generally characterized as a movement disorder. Over the last years, however, there has been an increasing awareness that many people with PD may also suffer so-called "non...
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Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2013Effect of the Stimulation Frequency of STN DBS on Swallowing Function in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
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The stimulation frequency in subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) has been found to affect the axial symptoms of freezing of gait (FOG) and speech in... -
Therapeutics Development Initiative, 2009IMD-026259 An Innovative Drug for Disease-Modifying Treatment of Parkinson´s Disease
Objective/Rationale:
Parkinson’s disease progresses through the death of brain cells caused by “oxidative stress.” This takes place in dysfunctional mitochondria - structures within each cell...
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