The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today. Watch our video to find out how we will get to a cure.

We are 100% patient-focused.

Our team works tirelessly every day with one urgent goal in mind: Accelerating breakthroughs patients can feel in their everyday lives. We strive to make progress in the following key areas by evaluating risk, opportunities, and challenges through a patient-focused lens:
Speed treatments that can slow, stop or reverse the progression of Parkinson’s disease
Speed better treatments for the currently unaddressed or under-addressed symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
Speed treatments to address or avoid the debilitating side effects of current Parkinson’s disease drugs
We are obsessed with efficiency.

We operate with a focused sense of optimistic urgency to find a cure for Parkinson’s and to ensure the development of improved therapies for people living with Parkinson’s today. We won’t stop until a cure is found. We’re on it.
We won’t stop until a cure is found.

We take pride in all our accomplishments so far. But ultimately we have only one definition of success: Scientific solutions that produce tangible improvements in patients’ lives.
We are risk-takers and problem-solvers.

From inception, MJFF has invested in high-risk, high-reward research targets; an approach that in 10 short years has transformed the broader approach in the PD research field.