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Big News: Our Landmark Study Has Expanded

The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) is recruiting more volunteers to explore the link between sense of smell and brain disease. Now, PPMI scientists are calling on people with and without Parkinson's disease to take a free scratch-and-sniff test. You can help move research forward. 

Our single, urgent goal: Eliminate Parkinson's disease in our lifetime.

Over $ 2 billion funded in research programs to date

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“Parkinson's patients are the experts on what we have. We have a responsibility as patients to share our experience — what works for us, what we respond to, what we can contribute to research.”

— Michael J. Fox

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Thousands of Team Fox members worldwide are turning their passions and interests into millions in funding for Parkinson's research.

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You have the power to impact your future and the future of millions living with Parkinson's disease. Explore participating in clinical research today.

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Your voice and your story can shape policymakers' decisions on issues of importance to the Parkinson's community.

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Dan Kinel
“Participating in research changes how you view your diagnosis… and the world around you. It makes you feel like you are playing an important role in solving a problem that affects millions of people.”
— Dan Kinel, Rochester, NY
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