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NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson s Research (MJFF) today announced that Deborah W. Brooks has been named CEO and Co-Founder of the nation s leading organization dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson s disease (PD). She takes the helm at a critical moment as the Foundation seeks to accelerate its mission by complementing its aggressively funded research agenda with efforts to engage the nationwide and international patient, family and researcher community in the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson s today. Having co-founded MJFF with Michael J. Fox in 2000 and served as CEO until 2007 and Executive Vice Chairman until the present day, Brooks is a central architect of the Foundation s milestone-driven, innovative research model that has generated more than $1 billion to support Parkinson s research.
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American Academy of Neurology to establish its 2022 Cure One, Cure Many Award: A research award for early diagnosis of Lewy body dementia. This $3 million, multi-year research award was created to improve the diagnosis of Lewy body dementia (LBD), which causes a progressive decline in cognitive function and is the second most common cause of neurodegenerative dementia, after Alzheimer s disease.
Currently, LBD can only be definitively diagnosed with a brain autopsy after death. As a result of a delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis, people with LBD and their caregivers endure daily challenges and uncertainty.
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