User:Hortur0/The Michael J. Fox Foundation

History
Established in 2000 by Canadian actor Michael J. Fox, the foundation has since become the largest non-profit funder of Parkinson's disease research in the world, with more than $1 billion of research projects to date. In 2010, the Foundation launched the first large-scale clinical study on evolution biomarkers of the disease at a cost of $45 million over five years.