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The PD Avengers Podcast Takeover: Meet Global Parkinson’s Organizations and How They Can Help You (Part 1)
August 25, 2021
… The Michael J. Fox Foundation is passing the podcast mic to our friends at the PD Avengers , a global alliance … a deep dive on what differentiates their mission and how people and families with PD can get involved today. … series by clicking here. Allison Boiles Vice President Communications …
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RaceTrac Races to The Finish Line This Parkinson's Awareness Month
May 17, 2012
… RaceTrac kicked of Parkinson’s Awareness Month with a community 5K run and then spent the rest of April eating chocolate bars and drinking coffee—all to raise money for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). Thanks to their Coffee for a Cause and Chocolate for a Cause …
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Engineering Research-enabling Cells to Fuel Mechanistic Studies of Parkinson’s Disease
… Rationale: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have become widely used in the research community to investigate how mutations found in genetic studies of Parkinson’s … Research Tool …
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Claudia and Carlos Revilla: Leveraging the Challenge to Multiply the Results
September 1, 2011
… 2011 issue of our newsletter, Accelerating the Cure. They took advantage of the Brin Wojcicki Challenge to maximize … I?” Inspired by the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s (MJFF) commitment to maximize donors’ dollars to speed development … for each of us to make a difference,” she concluded. “Together, our small efforts add up to a large result.” …
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Save the Clocktower! 'Back to the Future' for Parkinson's Research
October 28, 2011
… at a special HD screening of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future in Wilmette, IL. Doors open at 9:15, and the … begins at exactly 10:04 (when lightning strikes the clocktower in Hill Valley!). Cost is $15 at the door and … cash bar will also be available in the lobby. Feel free to come dressed as Marty, Doc Brown, or your favorite Back to …
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Bio-Geeks, Rascal Flatts and the Broken Road to a Cure
June 8, 2012
… 10,000 drugs the pharmaceutical industry invents makes it to market; of those that start clinical trials, at least 9 … Jack Scannell has dubbed Eroom’s Law—the opposite of the computer industry’s Moore’s Law. The good news: The … journey, but we learn from each setback and (hopefully) come out stronger in the end." Holly Teichholtz Chief …