Parkinson's Foundation Impact Awards
Funds independent Parkinson's disease investigators pursuing bold, high-risk projects with translational clinical relevance.
The Parkinson's Foundation Impact Awards provide USD 200,000 in total direct costs over two years — USD 100,000 per year — to independent tenure-track investigators pursuing novel or high-risk Parkinson's disease research. The Parkinson's Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) formed in 2016 through the merger of the National Parkinson Foundation and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, and has funded more t…
Funds novel or high-risk Parkinson's disease research projects led by independent tenure-track investigators, emphasizing outside-the-box approaches and biomarker discovery over incremental extensions of existing work.
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