Michael J. Fox Parkinson Foundation: Investigating Environmental Factors that Increase the Risk for Parkinson’s Disease- Pre-proposals

Aim: to investigate environmental exposures, such as chemicals or toxic emissions, that increase the risk of PD and/or influence disease progression.

Applications should focus on studies that achieve the following goals: 

• Analyze large epidemiological datasets to identify environmental risk factors, such as exposure to chemicals, toxic emissions, air pollutants, and dietary contaminants, which are associated with an increased risk of PD.
• MJFF is especially interested in funding projects that utilize large longitudinal datasets and will prioritize collaborative efforts that bring together teams of investigators with access to multiple diverse datasets.

This program is not appropriate for studies that require additional or prospective data collection

Funding: up to $400,000 for 1-2.

https://www.michaeljfox.org/grant/investigating-environmental-factors-increase-risk-parkinsons-disease