In the News
Below are select media stories about our work:
Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)
2022
Inside Philanthropy: Parkinson’s Funders Take a Venture Philanthropy Approach to Speed Development of Treatments (15 Sep 2022)
EurekAlert!: Investigators discover a ‘double life’ for a key Parkinson’s disease protein (9 Jun 2022)
Ottawa Citizen: The Ottawa Hospital’s push to demystify Parkinson’s disease (22 Apr 2022)
UC Santa Barbara: Probing a Parkinson’s Paradox (23 Mar 2022)
ScienceBlog: New Targets for Treating Parkinson’s Disease (21 Mar 2022)
Mirage News: Investigating Waste in our Cells: So That we can Soon Forget About Alzheimer’s (16 Feb 2022)
NPR: A Brain Circuit Tied to Emotion may Lead to Better Treatments for Parkinson's Disease (7 Feb 2022)
NPR Short Wave: Placebos Vs Parkinson's: The Power of Joy (24 Jan 2022)
2021
ASAP: Year in Review 2021 (31 Dec 2021)
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research: Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Major Expansion of Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), Landmark Study Toward Better Treatments and Prevention of Disease (2 Dec 2021)
Los Andes: Científico Mendocino Integra un Equipo que Investiga el Mal de Parkinson (8 Nov 2021)
Parkinson’s News Today: 2 Northwestern Researchers Awarded $17.9M in ASAP Grants (8 Nov 2021)
Emory New Center: Emory Receives $6 Million Grant to Accelerate Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Research (5 Nov 2021)
Ärzteblatt: Millionenförderung für Magdeburger Parkinsonforschung (3 Nov 2021)
Grand Rapids Business Journal: Parkinson’s Study Receives $6M Grant (3 Nov 2021)
The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley Researcher to Join $9M Project on Parkinson’s Disease (3 Nov 2021)
Michigan Live: Van Andel Institute, Others aim to Speed up Parkinson’s Disease Research with $6.3 Million Grant (1 Nov 2021)
Northwestern Now: Parkinson’s Disease Researchers to Study Brain Circuits Driving Symptoms (1 Nov 2021)
Parkinson’s News Today: Caltech Team to Use $11M ASAP Grant to Study Gut-brain Connection (1 Nov 2021)
The Daily Pennsylvanian: Penn Professor Part of Team Receiving $9 Million Grant to Fight Parkinson’s (31 Oct 2021)
Drug Target Review: $9 Million Grant Awarded to Uncover Whether Parkinson’s Starts in the Nose (29 Oct 2021)
Le Solieil: Le Parkinson Commence-t-il dans le Nez? (29 Oct 2021)
Parkinson’s News Today: Grants Support Researching Role of Non-neuronal Cell Types (29 Oct 2021)
Parkinson’s News Today: $8.9M Grant Will Drive Research Into Gut-to-brain Protein Spread (28 Oct 2021)
Crain’s New York: NYSNA Calls Kingsbrook Geriatric Psych Unit Closure a ‘Violation of Trust' (27 Oct 2021)
Fox 17 West Michigan: Two Van Andel Institute Scientists Awarded Grants to Research Parkinson's Disease (27 Oct 2021)
Mirage News: Oxford-led Team Given £6.6m to Map Uncharted Networks in Progression of Parkinson’s (27 Oct 2021)
Northwestern Medicine News Center: $18 Million For Parkinson’s Disease Research to Study Brain Circuits Driving Symptoms (27 Oct 2021)
Duke Today: Duke-led Teams Awarded $18 Million to Investigate Parkinson’s Disease (26 Oct 2021)
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: Zukunft der Parkinson-Forschung: Michael J. Fox Unterstützt Magdeburger Institut (26 Oct 2021)
Neuroscience News: Does Parkinson’s Start in the Nose? (26 Oct 2021)
Planta Doce: Un Proyecto de Vall d’Hebron capta 9,4 Millones Para Estudiar la Enfermedad de Parkinson (26 Oct 2021)
Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom: $9M Grant Funds Study of Gut-Brain Connection in Parkinson’s Disease (26 Oct 2021)
Medical Express: Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Parkinson's Research and Care (1 Oct 2021)
Journal of Parkinson’s Disease: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Parkinson’s Research and Care (30 Sep 2021)
The Scholarly Kitchen: Revisiting: Is There a Business Case for Open Data? (30 Aug 2021)
IndiaEducationDiary.com: University Of California, Berkeley: Campus Funding For Sponsored Research Tops $1 Billion For First Time (20 Aug 2021)
UC San Diego New Center: UC San Diego Marks Final Stretch of Record-Breaking Fundraising Campaign (5 Aug 2021)
Technology Networks: The Genetic Architecture of Parkinson’s Disease in Latino Populations (28 Jul 2021)
Parkinson’s News Today: MJFF Funds 36 Studies Totaling $6.3M (2 Jun 2021)
Inside Philanthropy: The Parkinson's Foundation Was Bracing for the Worst in 2020. Instead, Giving Surged (26 May 2021)
MDedge: Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Increased Risk for Parkinson’s (17 Mar 2021)
eLife: Point of View: Open Science Takes on Parkinson’s Disease (25 Feb 2021)
2020
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Taking Aim at Parkinson’s Disease: A Conversation with Developmental Biologist Lorenz Studer (9 Oct 2020)
Inside Philanthropy: "Aligning the Whole Chain." Behind a Sergey Brin-Funded Parkinson's Research Initiative (6 Oct 2020)
AE Research: Researchers Bag $6Mn Grant to Study the Link Between Parkinson’s & Aging (1 Oct 2020)
The Daily Californian: Parkinson’s Research at UC Berkeley Funded by $14 Million Grant (30 Sep 2020)
Vet Times: Grant Boost as RVC Looks for Parkinson’s Breakthrough (30 Sep 2020)
Parkinson’s News Today: $7.2M Grant Advances Work Into LRRK2 Protein’s Role in Parkinson’s (24 Sep 2020)
Philanthropy New Digest: Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Awards $161 Million in Grants (24 Sep 2020)
The University of Alabama at Birmingham News: UAB Investigator Part of International Collaboration for Research on Parkinson’s Disease (21 Sep 2020)
Van Andel Institute: University of Minnesota, Van Andel Institute Earn $6M to Study Aging’s Role in Parkinson’s (21 Sep 2020)
McGill Newsroom: $12.5 Million Awarded to Montreal Team to Study Parkinson’s Disease (18 Sep 2020)
Patch: UC San Diego Receives $7.2M Grant For Parkinson's Research (18 Sep 2020)
The University of Sydney News: $12.5m Enables New Research Approach to Parkinson's (18 Sep 2020)
The Courier UK: Multi-million Dollar Boost Hailed as ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Parkinson’s Research Opportunity (17 Sep 2020)
UC San Diego News Center: UC San Diego Scientists to Explore New Frontiers in Parkinson’s Disease Research with $7.2M Grant (17 Sep 2020)
Berkeley News: $14 Million Boost for Parkinson’s Disease Research (16 Sep 2020)
Deadline: £7m Award an “Opportunity of a Lifetime” to Tackle Parkinson’s (16 Sep 2020)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: MSK Awards & Appointments (16 Sep 2020)
News Wise: Rush University Awarded “Real Funding To Make Big Progress” in Battling Parkinson’s (16 Sep 2020)
University College London News: Parkinson’s Disease Research at UCL Gets £19m Boost (16 Sep 2020)
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne: Peng a Part of Multi-Institutional Research Team to Investigate Parkinson's Disease (16 Sep 2020)
Yale News: Yale Teams get Multi-million-dollar Awards to Study Biology of Parkinson’s (16 Sep 2020)
News Wise: LJI Scientists Receive $3.5 Million to Investigate Role of Immune Cells in Parkinson's Disease (15 Sep 2020)
Times of San Diego: La Jolla Institute for Immunology Receives $3.5M for Parkinson’s Disease Research (15 Sep 2020)
2019
eLife: Point of View: Coordinating a new Approach to Basic Research into Parkinson’s Disease (25 Sep 2019)
Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN)
2022
Wall Street Journal: What Sewage Can Tell Us About Outbreaks of Polio, Monkeypox, and Covid-19 (16 Sep 2022)
Time: Researchers Are Now Tracking Monkeypox in Wastewater (7 Sep 2022)
CNN: Wastewater surveillance becomes more targeted in search for poliovirus, monkeypox and coronavirus (8 Sep 2022)
Bloomberg: To Fight Monkeypox and Other Viruses, Look Harder in the Sewers (30 Aug 2022)
Boston Globe: Experts say wastewater testing is crucial for COVID, could be useful for monkeypox — and the next big disease (15 Aug 2022)
Fortune: Wastewater is trying to tell us something about the future of COVID, polio, monkeypox, and the next epidemic to come (12 Aug 2022)
NPR: COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox (8 Aug 2022)
National League of Cities: How Local Leaders Can Address the Monkeypox Outbreak (8 Aug 2022)
Face the Nation: Former FDA commissioner says U.S. needs to boost monkeypox testing “substantially” (7 Aug 2022)
American City and County: Partnership launches no-cost wastewater monitoring service for local governments (5 Aug 2022)
Stanford News: Stanford-based initiative WastewaterSCAN will monitor wastewater for COVID-19, monkeypox, influenza A, and RSV genetic markers to help guide public health responses (5 Aug 2022)
BMJ: What poo tells us: wastewater surveillance comes of age amid covid, monkeypox, and polio (29 Jul 2022)
Fortune: COVID is at or near record levels around the country. Scientists say one (pretty gross) indicator doesn’t lie (26 Jul 2022)
MIT Technology Review: Monkeypox is in Bay Area wastewater (23 Jul 2022)
WBUR: How to navigate the current stage of the COVID pandemic (18 Jul 2022)
Newsy: Wastewater Could Help Fill Gaps in Monkeypox Testing (7 Jul 2022)
Stanford Daily: Wastewater monitoring can inform pandemic responses, environment engineering scholars say (29 Apr 2022)
Daily Democrat: New data shows increase in COVID-19 transmission in Yolo County (27 Apr 2022)
ABC-7: Here's how COVID is detected in wastewater throughout CA (15 Jun 2022)
COVID-19 Data Dispatch: COVID Source Shout-Out: SCAN’S Wastewater Dashboard (24 Apr 2022)
CDC Foundation: Awash with Potential: Using Wastewater Surveillance to Shore Up Public Health (24 Mar 2022)
CNN: CDC unveils its latest weapon in Covid-19 detection: wastewater (4 Feb 2022)
CDC Foundation: Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health Summit on Data Modernization (25 Jan 2022)
USA Today: When will this COVID surge end? Scientists search your sewage for clues (14 Jan 2022)
2021
NPR: Poop sleuths hunt for early signs of omicron in sewage (9 Dec 2021)
Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving With Bipolar Disorder (BD²)
2022
Forbes: Imagine if There was Someone Like Patagonia Billionaire Chouinard — But Focused on Mental Health (15 Sep 2022)
BD² Release: Global Platform Launches to Transform Bipolar Disorder Research and Care (12 Sep 2022)
Forbes: Sergey Brin, Roblox’s David Baszucki and Kent Dauten of Keystone Capital Commit $150 Million to Fight Bipolar Disorder (12 Sep 2022)
Philanthropy News Digest: Platform for bipolar disorder research launched with $150 million (13 Sep 2022)