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PPMI Study Update Call – 6/14/18
PPMI Study Update Call Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis Thursday, June 14 12-1 pm Eastern Time Brit Mollenhauer, MD Attending Neurologist, Head of Clinical Research PPMI Steering Committee Member Paracelsus-Elena Klinik Doug Galasko, MD Professor of Neurology PPMI Steering Committee Member University of California San Diego PPMI participants are encouraged to call in to the next […]
Continue reading...2018 PPMI Annual Meeting Summary
The 2018 PPMI Annual Investigator’s Meeting took place on May 2-3 in New York City. There were more than 200 attendees present, including PPMI investigators and coordinators, Industry Scientific Advisory Board representatives, The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders fellows and fellowship directors, the PPMI Patient Committee, and the PPMI Steering Committee. This meeting […]
Continue reading...Collaboration with Verily Aims to Deepen Parkinson’s Understanding through Digital Health Tools
Wearable sensors to monitor health-related measures like heart rate, glucose levels, or physical activity are helping people assess their own health and enabling research in treating and understanding chronic disease. The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) and Verily Life Sciences LLC, an Alphabet company, are collaborating to use wearable devices — in conjunction with clinic-based data and […]
Continue reading...PPMI Study Update Call – 3/15/18
PPMI Study Update Call Thursday, March 15 12-1 pm Eastern Time Andrew Siderowf, MD, MSCE Professor of Neurology University of Pennsylvania Co-Principal Investigator of PPMI PPMI participants are encouraged to call in to the next quarterly Study Update Call on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 12 pm EST. During this call, Dr. Andrew Siderowf, […]
Continue reading...PPMI at MDS 2017
The 21st International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS) conference will take place next week, June 4-8, in Vancouver, Canada. PPMI leadership is happy to announce that several posters will feature PPMI data. We invite you to look for PPMI at this year’s meeting: Blue Ribbon Highlight: 840 Multiple modality biomarker prediction […]
Continue reading...PPMI 2017 Annual Meeting Summary
Nearly 180 PPMI investigators, coordinators, study cores, patient advisory and steering committee members, sponsors, and industry partners from around the world met in New York City May 3-4, 2017 to share PPMI study and scientific updates and to discuss the future of the initiative. The annual meeting remains a critical component to the study. It […]
Continue reading...Live Webinar February 24: 2016 PPMI Data Challenge Winners
In June of 2016, The Michael J. Fox Foundation challenged data scientists and computational analysts to work with PPMI?s unprecedented collection of open-access clinical, molecular, and imaging data to answer two fundamental questions about Parkinson?s disease: what are the subtypes of the disease, and what baseline factors predict disease progression? In total, forty researchers submitted […]
Continue reading...The Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces $25,000 PPMI Data Challenge to Advance Parkinson?s Understanding and Study Design
Today The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) announced a challenge asking data scientists and computational analysts to work with researchers to answer fundamental questions about Parkinson?s that limit our understanding and slow drug testing. The PPMI Data Challenge offers $25,000 each to two teams that develop models to answer either: ? What factors at baseline predict […]
Continue reading...PPMI Participating in Upcoming Datathon
The tranSMART Foundation is hosting the Cross Neurodegenerative Diseases Datathon June 30 - July 2. Scientists will use the tranSMART Platform to perform analyses across multiple public datasets in the neurodegenerative disease field, including PPMI, BioFIND, LRRK2, ADNI, and GEO PD.
Continue reading...PPMI at MDS 2015
PPMI is excited to announce that several presentations at the 19th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS) will feature PPMI data. View the PPMI-related abstracts for this congress happening in San Diego, California on June 14-18.
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