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MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards Hit Mid-2009 with Over $1 Million Funded in High-Risk/ High-Reward Approaches To Parkinson's Disease
June 25, 2009
… There is significant literature, mostly based on cases from the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, documenting … program was first launched. Some Rapid Response projects from prior years have gone on to garner major additional …
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Mrs. Lily Safra’s Lead Gift of $2.5 Million to Support Landmark Study to Find Biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease
July 13, 2010
… J. Fox Foundation announced a lead gift of $2.5 million from philanthropist Lily Safra to support the Parkinson’s … therapies for PD that could slow or stop the disease from continually worsening over time, at present a critical …
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Your Voice Made a Difference: 2018 Advocacy Highlights
December 17, 2018
… up loud and clear for the policy needs of our community. From January to October, nearly 18,000 people contacted … to Washington. In March, nearly 300 Parkinson's advocates from nearly all 50 states convened in Washington, D.C. for …
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“Blue Water Veterans” Act Passes Congress, Signed by President
July 8, 2019
… Vietnam and Cambodia will have access to deserved benefits from the VA ,” he added. The Department of Veterans Affairs … to provide disability compensation to veterans suffering from illnesses which are “presumptive” to exposure to Agent …
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My Experience as a Healthy Participant in a Clinical Trial
October 28, 2019
… I take the escalator up from DC’s Metro train station and turn to the left. One of … some simple demographic information and said I’d hear back from someone at NIH within a few weeks. A few weeks later, I …
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Senior Marketing Analytics Manager
… reports and analyses in response to business questions from multiple stakeholder groups. Work cross functionally … have no endowment. We instead start our fundraising from zero each year and seek to deploy funds raised as …