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Patrick Wilson on His Decision to Run the ING NYC Marathon for Team Fox
October 4, 2012
… run the 2012 ING NYC Marathon, his first, with Team Fox to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s … him to race. Please donate to support Wilson’s run — and come out to cheer him (and the rest of our 200-runner … sport I could continue through high school because it somehow fell between the fall play and the spring musical! So …
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Evaluating Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of LRRK2 to Deliver PET Ligands
… PD patients, coupled with the emergence of kinase inhibitors as a new class of efficacious drugs, provide a … that may ameliorate, LRRK2-driven PD. Evaluation of such compounds in pre-clinical models, and consequent clinical … compounds for their effectiveness in engaging the LRRK2 target in brain tissue in vivo – so enabling selection of …
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Letter to the Senate: Protect Affordable and Accessible Health Care
September 22, 2017
… The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) continues to advocate for access to prescription drugs and to promote … our health care principles on behalf of the Parkinson's community. On September 20, 2017, Ted Thompson, JD, the … for individual's with pre-existing conditions. There is, however, no requirement that states demonstrate whether or …
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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 … with idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), would show a significant decrease in HRV compared to controls. We … Non-Motor Symptoms …