New Michael J. Fox Aussie partnership
August 15, 2011
ACTOR Michael J. Fox yesterday
announced a new collaboration
with Australian Parkinson’s Disease
charity, the Shake It Up Foundation.
Fox’s Foundation for Parkinson’s
Research will work with Shake It Up
to bring a major clinical study called
the Parkinson’s Progression Markers
Initiative (PPMI) to Australia.
And the groups will work together
to ensure that funds raised for
research are allocated to projects
“closest or most critical to tangibly
impacting patients’ lives”.
PPMI is a five-year clinical study
to find biomarkers of Parkinson’s
disease progression, and is already
under way at 19 sites in the United
States and Europe.
“By broadening the study
population for PPMI to Australia,
we’re optimistic that we will
increase our chances to quickly
identify universally relevant
biomarkets,” said Todd Sherer, ceo
of the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Shake It Up was established this
year by Clyde Campbell, ceo of
Machinery Automation & Robotics,
who was diagnosed with
Parkinson’s disease in 2009.
See www.shakeitup.org.au.
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