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Read the latest developments, reporting and analysis from the world of Parkinson's research, including progress made in studies, tools and collaborations funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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    Building Trust and Awareness to Make Research Welcoming to All

    Most Parkinson’s research to date has not fully represented all people who live with PD. To ensure that the breakthrough treatments we seek benefit the widest range of people affected by Parkinson’s,…
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    What Causes Parkinson’s? Four New Projects Look for Contributors in Environment

    Grantees are reviewing records for connections between Parkinson’s and air pollution, pesticides and exposures seen in military service.
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    Neurology Today Profiles PPMI Co-Principal Investigator Carlie Tanner: “You couldn’t ask for more from a scientific career.”

    Earlier this month, PPMI co-principal investigator Carlie Tanner, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, was featured in…
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    PPMI: Our Study to Predict and Prevent Parkinson’s Needs You

    For more than 10 years, thousands of patients, scientists and volunteers have contributed to The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s (MJFF) landmark study, the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative …
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    Potential Therapy Targeting Key Parkinson’s Protein Advances in Human Trials

    Partners Prothena and Roche have enrolled the first participant in their Phase IIb trial of an alpha-synuclein antibody.
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    Overcoming Motivational Roadblocks to Fitness

    A new project funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation uses goal setting, feedback and self-management strategies to help people with Parkinson’s…
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  • New Study Examines Impulse Control Disorders and Parkinson's Drugs

    News in Context: LRRK2 Therapy Reports Positive Phase I Findings

    Biogen and Denali announced their drug to lower LRRK2 activity was safe and moved markers of protein activity closer to normal with their tests.

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