… and die in Parkinson’s disease, from skin and blood cells. Researchers are attempting to use these neurons to replace … restore motor function. In addition, the cells can serve as research tools for exploration into the disease process and impact of therapeutic …

… for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) – to fund research into the brain trauma often experienced by its players.  The … greater risk of PD up to decades following the event.  More research is needed to confirm such a risk. Nate Herpich …

… The Parkinson’s research community mourns the passing of neurologist C. … for giving more weight to patient needs in Parkinson’s research, pushed innovative thinking about clinical trial design and helped to bring research into the clinic.   From its earliest days, Dr. OIanow …

… NEWYORK, NY — The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) announced today the launch of its 2005 … seeks out proposals that stimulate well-designed clinical research projects focused on potentially high-impact … “Clinical research is critical to turning basic discoveries into meaningful advances for people with Parkinson’s …

… MJFF’s Maurizio Facheris , MD, MSc, associate director of research programs, recently spoke with Medscape … Throughout the course of the article, Facheris highlights research projects devoted to finding new treatments for dyskinesia, and improving the delivery of levodopa into the bloodstream. He also discusses the prion hypothesis …

… read the  Spring/Summer 2018 edition of The Fox Focus , our biannual newsletter.   At The Michael J. Fox Foundation, … treatments, and even a cure, for Parkinson's disease. But how does a genetic finding become a direction to a new treatment? A brief history of …