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Matt Wilbur Continues to Stay “One Step Ahead”
November 20, 2012
… Pictured: Matt’s daughter Kristen, Matt and Team Fox Mentor & Friend Mike Dubin during the 2011 NYC Marathon This guest blog post comes from Tony Alonso, friend of Team Fox member Matt … this past summer―despite the roadblocks Parkinson’s presents―in order to raise money for Team Fox and meet his …
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Validating the Electrocardiogram as a Tool to Identify Pre-motor Parkinson's Disease
… Promising Outcomes of Original Grant : Our goal in the funded RRIA was to determine if a 5 minute EKG recordings in patients with a high probably of having pre-motor PD, i.e., individuals with idiopathic REM sleep … Non-Motor Symptoms … J. William Langston, MD …
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Stepping up to Help Science Fill in the Gaps
October 31, 2017
… Claudia, center in blue, with family and friends at their 2015 Tour de Fox fundraiser. Claudia Revilla has always understood the power of community. So when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's …
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FOX FOTO FRIDAY: Moving to End Parkinson's
July 6, 2012
… was the scene on June 29th in New York City. Team Fox Mentor Beth Hochstein (featured in the orange tank) partnered with Zumba Fitness to host Moving to End Parkinson’s . Beth not only raised …
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From Structure to Function: Targeting LRRK2-mediated Parkinson's Disease
… (PD) mutations in the LRRK2 protein have been linked to decreased GTPase (enzyme that binds to G proteins) … evolution approach, we showed, for the first time, how to express different types of wild type- and PD-related LRRK2 … will help accelerate development of the most promising compounds identified. …
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SUPPLEMENT: Rescreening of the MJFF Compound Library to Identify Molecules that Can be Used to Monitor Alpha-synuclein
… of Parkinson’s disease (PD). We recently confirmed that two compounds developed under the MJFF Alpha-synuclein Imaging … a higher affinity for alpha-synuclein and a better ability to discriminate between alpha-synuclein and amyloid-beta, a … compounds labeled with tritium will bind to alpha-synuclein present in postmortem brain slices of the PD brain. Study …