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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Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009Phase I Trial of Phenylbutyrate to Prevent Progression of Parkinson's Disease
Objective/Rationale:
Parkinson’s disease gets worse over many years because dopamine neurons continue to die. Researchers have discovered a drug that prevents brain deterioration in pre-clinical... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activators as Novel Drugs For the Treatment of PD
Objective/Rationale:
The accumulation of at least two toxic products in the brain called DOPAL and 4HNE results in death of neurons that are implicated in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We identified a... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009Serum Biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease
Objective/Rationale:
The immune system appears to play an important role in the progression of Parkinson’s disease, and immunotherapy may offer an approach to slow or stop disease progression. The... -
Postural Instability and Gait Disturbances, 2009The Role of White Matter Pathology in the Development of the Postural Instability and Gait Disturbance (PIGD) Type of Parkinson's Disease (PD)-1
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It is not clear why a subset of patients with Parkinson's disease develop postural instability and gait disturbances (PIGD), while others do not. White matter (WM) changes that... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009From Anti-aggregation Assay to Treatment for Parkinson's Disease: Developing a Secondary Screen to Bridge High throughput Screen and Cellular Assay
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We want to develop a series of secondary assays that will allow us to shortlist likely drug candidates for therapy against Parkinson’s disease. These assays will bridge the gap... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2009Investigating the Potential effect of Peroxisome Proliferation in Diminishing Alpha-synuclein Pathogenesis
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Alpha-synuclein is a protein critically involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. Growing evidence link alpha-synuclein pathogenesis in PD and brain lipid metabolism...
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