The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today.

Their Core Values

They are 100% patient-focused.
Their team works tirelessly every day with one urgent goal in mind: Accelerating breakthroughs patients can feel in their everyday lives. They strive to make progress in the following key areas by evaluating risk, opportunities, and challenges through a patient-focused lens:

*Speed treatments that can slow, stop or reverse the progression of Parkinson's disease
*Speed better treatments for the currently unaddressed or under-addressed symptoms of Parkinson's disease
*Speed treatments to address or avoid the debilitating side effects of current Parkinson's disease drugs

They are obsessed with efficiency.
They operate with a focused sense of optimistic urgency to find a cure for Parkinson's and to ensure the development of improved therapies for people living with Parkinson's today. They won't stop until a cure is found. They're on it.

They won't stop until a cure is found.
They take pride in all their accomplishments so far. But ultimately they have only one definition of success: Scientific solutions that produce tangible improvements in patients' lives.

They are risk-takers and problem-solvers.
From inception, MJFF has invested in high-risk, high-reward research targets; an approach that in 10 short years has transformed the broader approach in the PD research field.

Their model is different.
It is accepted practice among private disease research funders that the most important decisions -- how to allocate donor-raised dollars -- are made by external scientific advisors and boards. They bucked this model from day one in favor of building an in-house team of formally trained PhDs and business-trained project managers.