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Michael J. Fox Foundation Commits Up to $12 Million for Targeted Parkinson's Therapeutic Development in 2010
Date:9/15/2009

al investment in the most promising targets by biotech and pharmaceutical companies, who are generally best-suited to carry promising therapies forward into the clinic.

Therapeutics Development Initiative

Total available funding: $5 million, exclusively to industry

Deadline: 6 p.m. ET, Monday, January 18, 2010; Spring 2010 deadline TBA

Funding Anticipated: June 2010

The Therapeutics Development Initiative (TDI) seeks to stimulate preclinical Parkinson's disease research projects of up to two years duration at for-profit institutions. There is no pre-set budget limitation for applications under this initiative. The program prioritizes key and critical preclinical studies necessary for developing, optimizing and evaluating therapeutic strategies that if successful can move into human testing.

Clinical Intervention Awards, An Edmond J. Safra Core Program for PD Research Total available funding: $3 million

Deadline: 6 p.m. ET, Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Funding anticipated: July 2010

The Clinical Intervention Awards drive clinical intervention trials of promising therapeutic approaches with potential to significantly improve the treatment of PD. Ideal proposals will focus on tests of novel treatments that can slow or halt disease progression, or that can greatly reduce PD motor and non-motor symptoms beyond (and without the complications of) current standards of care. There is no pre-set budget limitation for applications under this initiative.

Applications for all programs must be submitted through www.michaeljfox.org.

Pre-proposals (required for all programs except Rapid Response Innovation Awards) will be reviewed by the Fou
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