Banner Sun Health Research Institute and Mayo Clinic Arizona received $1.7 million from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to boost research into Parkinson’s disease. 

The two sites host the Arizona Parkinson’s Disease Consortium. 

Research projects include:

• The Brain and Body Donation Program, which provides samples to help establish links between underlying pathology and outward clinical features of Parkinson’s disease.
• Refining statistical models for the development of PD and dementia related to the disease.
• The search for biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease.
• Gastrointestinal symptoms of Parkinson’s.

Phoenix Business Journal, 12-15-09

Tags: Mayo Clinic Arizona, Neurology