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What We Fund: $11M to Projects Investigating New Parkinson’s Treatments and Learning More about Disease
February 22, 2021
… on Parkinson’s and skin cancer. ) Profiling GBA Pathway: Multiple projects are investigating the GBA pathway … the impact of GBA gene changes on lysosomes, the “recycling system” of the cell that degrades damaged cell parts. More …
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The New York Times: Seeking to Illuminate the Mysterious Placebo Effect
June 21, 2010
… by the National Institutes of Health about enlisting multiple institutions in an effort to understand placebos. … of happened out of the blue. “I think it’s connected to systems that generate emotional responses,” he continued. …
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As Michael J. Fox Returns to TV, Foundation Continues Pushing Toward a Cure: think/able celebrates the power of optimism
November 25, 2013
… to do. We were faced with the challenge of inventing a new system.” The Foundation grew quickly from startup to the … more Parkinson’s drugs are in development than ever before. Multiple methods to improve the delivery of levodopa (the …
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Brain Disease Research Organizations Pledge $2 Million USD to Uncover Similarities and Differences across Spectrum of Disorders
July 26, 2018
… better predicted disease progression by creating atrophy brain maps from MRI scans to investigate the spread …
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Validation of VPS41, a Protein Involved in Lysosomal Trafficking, as a Target for Parkinson Disease Therapy
… of Original Grant : VPS41 was identified in a C. elegans system. In the original funded grant, we demonstrated that …
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Targeting Dramatically Activated Astrocytic Networks for Managing LID: a Target Validation Program
… as passive partners of neurons in the central nervous system but this view has been challenged. Although …