J. Fox Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant from Merck Serono to Research

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J. Fox Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant from Merck Serono

to Research Projects on Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson's Disease

Oct 14, 2008

Five Research Teams Selected to Receive Funding for Preclinical and

Clinical Research Projects in Parkinson's Disease-Related Cognitive

Deficits and Mood Disorders

The J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) awarded

a total of $2 million to five research teams to speed development of

effective therapies for the under-addressed cognitive and mood-

related symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). The award was made

possible by leadership funding from Merck Serono, a division of Merck

KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

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Five Teams:

Eugenia Gurevich, PhD, of Vanderbilt University (USA)

Growdon, MD, of Harvard University (USA)

Ben Schmand, PhD, of Academic Medical Center (The Netherlands)

Connie Marras, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto (Canada)

Connie Marras, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto (Canada)

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