Light of Day Challenge
Goal: $200,000.00
Raised: $145,542.32
The Light of Day Foundation has doubled the Brilliant challenge, and will match every donation made to PDF by Saturday, June 30, dollar for dollar, beyond the original $100,000 for up to $200,000!
Featured Researcher
Dr. West says that the results from his studies suggest a new approach to Parkinson’s therapy involving a neurotransmitter called nitric oxide.
International Research Grants Program (IRGP)
Investigator-driven projects are a core piece of PDF’s philosophy to empower the community – of scientists, clinicians, people with Parkinson’s and health care professionals – to find creative solutions benefitting the seven to 10 million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s.
One way PDF supports investigator-driven projects is through the competitive International Research Grants Program (IRGP). The IRGP is designed to promote innovative research that has high potential to significantly advance the knowledge of Parkinson’s disease, but that is unlikely to secure funding through more traditional sources.
By supporting novel, “high risk/high reward” research, the goal of the IRGP is to enable investigators to demonstrate the feasibility of their ideas while generating preliminary data necessary for the support of future funding (typically, from the National Institutes of Health and other government funding agencies).
PDF currently supporters the work of five researchers with $825,000.
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