Open Funding Programs

MJFF Resource Access Program

The Michael J Fox Foundation has supported several pre-clinical and clinical efforts that have generated or facilitated access to valuable biospecimen collections for the research community. MJFF would like to expand these efforts and provide an opportunity for researchers to apply to utilize these resources in order to improve our understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Available resources include tissue from Parkinson’s rodent models, human biospecimens and associated clinical data from current and previous clinical studies and trials, and human post-mortem tissue from a brain and whole-body donation program.

Below you will find the descriptions of four MJFF-sponsored resources: MJFF Rodent Model Tissue, Arizona Parkinson’s Disease Consortium (APDC), Utilizing DATATOP Samples, and Assay Qualification Study.

How to Apply

Applicants may submit more than one application to use MJFF resources. Investigators will be asked to choose the specific MJFF resource to use and submit a pre-proposal template for the specific resource requested. Please see below for individual program Request for Applications (RFAs), deadlines and submission requirements.

Assay Qualification Samples

MJFF sponsored an Assay Qualification study that collected blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples in Parkinson’s disease subjects and healthy volunteers over 26 hours for use in biomarker development and assay optimization.

Assay Qualification Samples 2012 - Program Details - RFA
Read the RFA.

Assay Qualification Samples 2012 - Template and Instructions
Read the instructions.

Apply for Funding

To apply for any of the above opportunities, click here.

For additional information about this initiative, contact the Foundation at research@michaeljfox.org.