NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded Sok Kean Khoo, an associate professor of molecular genomics at Grand Valley State University, a $110,000 grant to study molecular biomarkers for monitoring the advancement of Parkinson's disease.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – KineMed today reported the Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded it an additional $1.2 million to continue development of kinetic biomarkers for Parkinson's disease.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Lucigen today announced it has received a $187,000 grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to study a protein that has been implicated in Parkinson's disease.
A 23andMe and Parkinson's Institute team has tracked down two new risk loci for Parkinson's disease and verified many more through a web-based genome-wide association study involving more than 3,400 cases and nearly 30,000 controls.