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Michael J. Fox Foundation Launches $2.8-Million Prescott Family Initiative at Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium
The Michael J. Fox Foundation today announced a $2.8-million, three-year collaborative initiative with The Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium (APDC), a group of six research institutions including Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Sun Health Research Institute. The Prescott Family Initiative at the Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium will support and expand APDC's work with the Sun Health Research Institute's Brain and Body Donation Program, which conducts in-depth clinical and post-mortem studies of normal-aging adults as well as PD patients. The program has been made possible by a leadership donation from Judi and George Prescott and their family. Mr. Prescott is a member of the Foundation's Board of Directors and a prominent Wisconsin businessman and philanthropist.
"The Brain and Body Donation Program is a unique resource," said Deborah W. Brooks, president and CEO of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. "This collaboration will maximize its considerable potential to increase understanding of Parkinson's disease by comprehensively tying clinical evidence to pathological underpinnings of onset and progression. Our goals are to prioritize the collection of data that can open up new avenues of pursuit for translation, and to ensure that all data gathered is highly accessible to researchers conducting both basic and drug development research."
The Brain and Body Donation Program was started 19 years ago by Sun Health Research Institute. It currently has more than 780 participants, including both PD patients and healthy control subjects, with an enrollment goal of 1,000 within three years. Participants are evaluated annually by a movement disorders specialist, a behavioral neurologist and a neuropsychologist. All subjects also agree to donation of their brain following death. Some also agree to a full-body autopsy and donation of other bodily organs. The information thus compiled on three distinct subsets - healthy adults; PD patients; and healthy adults who, over the course of their enrollment, experience PD onset - can offer a vivid picture of changes in the brain and the body before, during and after Parkinson's onset.....MORE
The Michael J. Fox Foundation today announced a $2.8-million, three-year collaborative initiative with The Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium (APDC), a group of six research institutions including Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Sun Health Research Institute. The Prescott Family Initiative at the Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium will support and expand APDC's work with the Sun Health Research Institute's Brain and Body Donation Program, which conducts in-depth clinical and post-mortem studies of normal-aging adults as well as PD patients. The program has been made possible by a leadership donation from Judi and George Prescott and their family. Mr. Prescott is a member of the Foundation's Board of Directors and a prominent Wisconsin businessman and philanthropist.
"The Brain and Body Donation Program is a unique resource," said Deborah W. Brooks, president and CEO of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. "This collaboration will maximize its considerable potential to increase understanding of Parkinson's disease by comprehensively tying clinical evidence to pathological underpinnings of onset and progression. Our goals are to prioritize the collection of data that can open up new avenues of pursuit for translation, and to ensure that all data gathered is highly accessible to researchers conducting both basic and drug development research."
The Brain and Body Donation Program was started 19 years ago by Sun Health Research Institute. It currently has more than 780 participants, including both PD patients and healthy control subjects, with an enrollment goal of 1,000 within three years. Participants are evaluated annually by a movement disorders specialist, a behavioral neurologist and a neuropsychologist. All subjects also agree to donation of their brain following death. Some also agree to a full-body autopsy and donation of other bodily organs. The information thus compiled on three distinct subsets - healthy adults; PD patients; and healthy adults who, over the course of their enrollment, experience PD onset - can offer a vivid picture of changes in the brain and the body before, during and after Parkinson's onset.....MORE