UF Joins Global Study Into Parkinson’s Onset and Progression
The University of Florida has been selected to join The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s landmark clinical study, the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), a global project seeking to discover new insights into the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease by studying people with and without the disease.
MJFF Confers Annual J. William Langston Award to Scientific Advisor Malú Gámez Tansey, Ph.D.
This year’s recipient of the annual J. William Langston Award from The Michael J Fox Foundation is UF’s Malú Gámez Tansey, Ph.D. MJFF CEO Todd Sherer, Ph.D., and chief science officer Brian Fiske, Ph.D., presented Tansey with the award.
UF Investigators Earn Michael J. Fox Foundation Award
Investigators at UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, or CTRND, earned a one-year, $200,000 award from the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Target Advancement Program to explore novel approaches to treat Parkinson’s disease. “We hope that this study will help us understand more about the role of CB2 in brain immune cells to remove […]