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The Michael J. Fox Foundation
Parkinson's disease charity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is a US non-profit organization founded in 2000 by Canadian-American actor Michael J. Fox to find a cure for Parkinson's disease.
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Business model
The organization funds grants directly to scientists it assesses as having the best chance of finding a cure.[4] It maintains closer control over and supervision of projects than is typical from other medical-research foundations.[4][5]
Fundraising
In 2006 it was the "largest private funder of research" into Parkinson's, according to The Guardian.[6] As of 2023[update], it had raised $2 billion for Parkinson's research projects.[7][4] According to Town and Country, in 2022 the organization funded more Parkinson's research than the US government.[4] According to Fox Business, it is the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research in the world.[8]
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Work
In 2023, a longitudinal study funded by the organization, the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative, released results in Lancet Neurology showing Parkinson's can be detected by the presence of a biomarker protein, abnormal alpha-synuclein.[4][9][10][11] The biomarker can be detected before the onset of symptoms.[12]
The organization hosts the Fox Trial Finder, a website for presenting clinical trials in Parkinson's disease research.[13]
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