The Michael J. Fox Foundation | Understanding, Assessing and Improving Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Research Program
Event details
| Date | 14.01.2025 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: This program seeks to fund clinical testing on personalized approaches for understanding, assessing and improving gait in Parkinson’s disease (PD) to address the wide variances of gait challenges across the continuum of the disease. The program aims to establish standardized assessment and tailor treatments to individual symptoms that improve gait and motor-cognitive functions.
Funding will support clinical research projects that will identify:
Duration: 24-36 months
Eligibility: Applications may be submitted by researchers or clinicians in:
Deadline pre-proposal: 14 January 2025
Further information:
Funding will support clinical research projects that will identify:
- CLEARER DEFINITION | Advance understanding of the multifaceted pathophysiological mechanisms of gait challenges in PD to help design personalized treatments.
- SENSITIVE MEASURES | Develop or deploy unique assessments to derive metrics to advance development of individualized or on-demand treatment of gait challenges.
- BETTER TREATMENTS | Conduct interventional studies testing personalized interventions to reduce or delay gait impairments in PD. Priority will be given to approaches that target both motor and non-motor contributors to gait challenges.
Duration: 24-36 months
Eligibility: Applications may be submitted by researchers or clinicians in:
- U.S. and non-U.S. public and private non-profit entities, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments and eligible agencies of the federal government.
- Post-doctoral fellows are eligible to apply as co-investigators with the designation of an administrative primary investigator who directs the laboratory in which the fellow will conduct research. The administrative PI will be responsible for assisting in providing all institutional documents required for the project and will be required to sign any award contract. Training or mentoring-only proposals will not be considered.
Deadline pre-proposal: 14 January 2025
Further information:
- More information about the program is available here and the full RFA is available here
- Application portal can be found here
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free