The Michael J. Fox Foundation

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.

Business model

The organization funds grants directly to scientists it assesses as having the best chance of finding a cure. It maintains closer control over and supervision of projects than is typical from other medical-research foundations.

Fundraising

In 2006 it was the "largest private funder of research" into Parkinson's, according to The Guardian. As of 2023, it had raised $2 billion for Parkinson's research projects. According to Town and Country, in 2022 the organization funded more Parkinson's research than the US government. According to Fox Business, it is the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research in the world.

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. The biomarker can be detected before the onset of symptoms.

The organization hosts the Fox Trial Finder, a website for presenting clinical trials in Parkinson's disease research.

References

External links

• Official website

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