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, 2010Development of a Progressive Familial Pre-clinical Model of Parkinson's Disease
Objective/Rationale:
Although a number of genes have been identified that lead to Parkinson’s disease in humans, the scientific community has yet to be able to recapitulate this in pre-clinical... -
Critical Challenges in PD: Alpha-synuclein Neuroimaging, 2010Development and Screening of Contrast Agents for In-vivo Imaging of Parkinson's Disease
Promising Outcomes of Original Grant:
The goals of the original grant were to screen a library of compounds to identify leads for non-invasive imaging of PD pathology. We used cell culture models of... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2010Development of In-vivo Models of Prion-like Transfer of Alpha-synuclein
Promising Outcomes of Original Grant:
We aimed at assessing the prion-like hypothesis of alpha-synuclein spread. Prions are small proteins that can move between cells, acting as infectious agents... -
MJFF Research Grant, 2010In-vivo SPECT Imaging of Synuclein Aggregation with Morphology Specific Antibody Based Ligands
Promising Outcomes of Original Grant:
The protein alpha-synuclein (a-syn) has been strongly correlated with PD, and small a-syn aggregates are very toxic and may be an early indicator of the disease... -
Therapeutics Development Initiative, 2010Selective Inhibition of Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase Type 7 (PDE7): A Novel and Efficacious Approach to Treating Parkinson's Disease
Promising Outcomes of Original Grant:
We are investigating a regulatory enzyme (type-7 cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, PDE7) as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease... -
Rapid Response Innovation Awards, 2010Biofeedback-based Motor Learning to Ameliorate Freezing of Gait
Objective/Rationale:
Our objective is to demonstrate that an intervention program based on motor learning principles can be applied to train subjects with Parkinson's disease (PD) who suffer from...
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