The Foundation supports research across basic, translational and clinical science to speed breakthroughs that can lead to the creation of new treatments and a better quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease.
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Previously funded studies appear chronologically, with the most recent appearing first.
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MJFF Research Grant, 2009Investigating Placebo Effects in Parkinson's Disease with Functional MRI
Objective/Rationale:
Many researchers believe that placebo treatments may have beneficial effects on symptom progression in Parkinson’s disease, but there is very little experimental evidence on... -
Critical Challenges in PD: Alpha-synuclein Neuroimaging, 2009Development and Screening of Contrast Agents for In Vivo Imaging of PD
Objective/Rationale:
This project aims to develop reagents to image alpha-synuclein pathology in the brains of living patients as a PD specific biomarker.
Project Description:
Using a library of small... -
Critical Challenges in PD: Alpha-synuclein Neuroimaging, 2009Utility of the Amyloid Ligand [18F]FDDNP in Human PET Imaging in Parkinson Disease
Objective/Rationale:
Biomarkers of Parkinson disease are sorely needed for the assessment of disease status so that they may be used to design more efficient and informative clinical trials of disease... -
Critical Challenges in PD: Alpha-synuclein Neuroimaging, 200918F-labeled Alpha-Synuclein Ligands for PET Imaging of Lewy Bodies
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The Avid-ProteoTech program aims at identifying radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging of Lewy bodies in the human brain. Lewy bodies, formed by aggregates of alpha-synuclein, are a... -
Critical Challenges in PD: Alpha-synuclein Neuroimaging, 2009A Strategy to Develop a Radiotracer Targeting Alpha-Synuclein
Objective/Rationale:
Alpha-synuclein is a protein that is found in nerve cells of patients with PD and therefore provides a potential target for methods designed to monitor the disease process in PD... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009H5N1 Influenza Virus as a Etiological Agent in Parkinson's Disease
Objective/Rationale:
There is a significant literature (mostly based on cases from the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918) that has documented Parkinson’s disease occurring, following exposure to...
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