Call for Innovation Prize: Parkinson Foundation promotes progress in Parkinson's research
08.03.2023 14:33
Parkinson's research is making promising progress, and scientists have reasonable hope that the development of new, causal therapies will be significantly advanced in the next ten years. The Parkinson Foundation wants to provide new impetus with a highly endowed innovation prize: in the categories of preclinical and clinical research, two 100,000 euros are available for research projects that make a breakthrough in the prevention or causal treatment of Parkinson's disease or a significant improvement in diagnostics, therapy or structural Promise care for people with Parkinson's. The application deadline is June 15, 2023.
The prize money is intended to enable key experiments and project ideas at an early stage that appear promising based on our own preliminary work, but would be too risky for traditional funding programs. With the two prizes, the Parkinson Foundation would like to give new impetus to Parkinson's research. “Approaches that question previously accepted theories about the causes of Parkinson's disease or its symptomatogenesis, work on new hypotheses, develop innovative intervention options or significantly change existing guidelines for diagnostics and therapy are therefore particularly worthy of support,” explains Prof. Jens Volkmann, first chairman of the Parkinson Foundation.
The prize is aimed at leading international scientists
According to the announcement, the prize is aimed at scientists who are international leaders in their field of research and who have published outstanding results. You must be employed at or associated with a German university or non-university research institution or university clinic. Co-applicants and cooperation partners can also work abroad. The foundation's scientific advisory board will assess the applications based on their innovation potential, scientific justification and the prospect of successful implementation. In the informal (maximum 10-page) application, the background, question, methodology and working environment of the applicant should also be presented, in particular, how the prize money should be used as start-up funding for the realization of the project goals.
Applicants can send their concept in electronic form with a CV and list of publications by June 15, 2023 to: [email protected].
About the Parkinson Foundation
The Parkinson Foundation, based in Berlin, was founded in 2019 by the German Society for Parkinson's and Movement Disorders (DPG) eV and serves to promote science and research, teaching, training and further education in relation to Parkinson's syndrome and to improve medical care in this area.