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Google's Brin allies with Pfizer and GSK in war on Parkinson's
Brin has put some serious dollars behind the R&D efforts, spending $132 million so far to fund programs through the Michael J. Fox Foundation and discovery work at pharma giants Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, Bloomberg reports.
Advocacy groups launch new services to match patients and trials
The Michael J. Fox Foundation is joining a lineup of patient advocacy groups that has been setting up new sites to match patients with drug studies.
Fox Foundation partners with Sanofi on Parkinson's study
In the pact, the foundation will own the data and results from the Phase Ib study of AVE 8112, a PDE4 inhibitor.
Dutch firm gets Fox Foundation funding for PD tech
Dutch drug delivery outfit to-BBB is getting bankrolled by The Michael J. Fox Foundation to support the development of a drug designed to treat neuroinflammation associated with Parkinson's disease.
Autoantibodies join race toward Parkinson's biomarkers
Despite being the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, Parkinson's disease still has no definitive diagnostic tests. New Jersey researchers have pinpointed autoantibodies...
Blood biomarker may yield simple early test for Parkinson's
Since 1817, when James Parkinson first described the disease in his "Essay on the Shaking Palsy," physicians have looked for the ideal diagnostic for Parkinson's disease, and over the last few years,
Michael J. Fox Foundation bankrolls AFFiRiS Parkinson's vaccine
The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) will supply $1.5 million for an early clinical study of Affitope PD01, a vaccine being developed by Vienna, Austria-based AFFiRiS for the treatment of Parkinson's
Michael J. Fox: Parkinson's biomarker would 'blow the roof off' discoveries so far
Actor Michael J. Fox , who suffers from Parkinson's disease, gives us a pep talk in SignOn San Diego on the search for biomarkers--a search led by the foundation that bears his name. The Michael J.
Major push on for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's biomarkers
Chemical & Engineering News gives us some good news, for a change, about the possibilities of biomarkers moving from lab to clinic. The thing is, you have to look outside of cancer to find them.
Cleveland Clinic aids Michael J. Fox effort to find Parkinson's biomarkers
We have reported before ( here and here ) about a five-year study to find elusive biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. The $40 million Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) is sponsored by a
