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Michael J. Fox Bio Keynote to Urge Bolder Moves in Translational Research
May 3, 2007
… patient advocate Michael J. Fox will address 4,000 leaders from the biotech and pharmaceutical industry at the BIO … greatest potential to hasten new therapeutics on their path from labs to patients. This funding strategy alters the risk …
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Supports the Obama Administration's Brain Activity Map Initiative
April 2, 2013
… that attack it, robbing quality -- and years -- of life from countless Americans. In announcing the Brain Activity … is predicted that three out of five Americans will suffer from a nervous system disease in their lifetime, a number …
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Correlating MRI, Pathology and Cognitive Assessments toward Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline
… collaboration with brain banks, we will obtain brain tissue from 30 Parkinson’s donors and 20 non-neurological controls. … we will download available MRI and clinical/cognitive data from multicenter studies to calculate the same …
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Investigating Vulnerability of Subsets of Dopaminergic Neurons
… to determine which neurons are lost in brain tissue from PD models and people who had PD. With this information, … will determine whether these are selectively lost in tissue from models and patients. Impact on Diagnosis/Treatment of …
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‘When Life Gives You Parkinson’s’: Podcast Talks to MJFF about Deep Brain Stimulation
October 31, 2019
… there are more DBS device options for patients to choose from. But like any other Parkinson’s therapy, deep brain … DBS, and we want people to gain as much benefit as possible from this and minimize as many risks as possible.” Listen to …
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GBA Sequencing and Detection of Mutations, Deletions, Insertions and Recombinations with the GBA Pseudo Gene
… This grant builds upon the research from a prior grant: Developing New Method for GBA sequencing … we will examine if the method works by using DNA samples from individuals who are known to have recombination of the …