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hi all At 16:28 2001/04/13 EDT, Parkinson's Disease Foundation wrote, in part: >PARKINSON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES >FIVE SUPPLEMENTARY RESEARCH AWARDS, >BRINGING TOTAL FOR THE YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2001 TO 24 >New York, April 12 - The Parkinson's Disease Foundation has announced five >additional research awards for the year beginning July 1, 2001. This new >wave brings to 24 the total number of awards made by the Foundation's >International Research Grants Program for the forthcoming fiscal year. >These awards, which average $35,000, cover a wide range of basic and applied >research initiatives designed to provide clues to understanding the cause, >charting the cure and managing the progress of Parkinson's disease, a >degenerative neurological condition that afflicts as many as one million >Americans and many more around the world. >The awards were announced by Stanley Fahn, M.D., the Foundation's scientific >director, following a Board Meeting on April 10 in which some $475,000 in >additional funds for research was approved. Approximately $175,000 of the >new funds will be for the five new awards. The balance of about $300,000 >will be set aside for new research opportunities, including a possible new >matching-funds initiative from the National Institutes of Health. >These new awards, when combined with the earlier "center" grants to Columbia >University and Cornell University in New York and Rush-Presbyterian St. >Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, bring the total of research funds >distributed to date by PDF in the current fiscal year (which ends June 30, >2001) to some $3.5 million. >The final wave of 20 awards, which was announced April 5, included one from a >scientist who received a duplicate award for the same project from another >foundation. She has since declined the PDF award. > >Names of all the 24 awardees and their projects follow:... > >O Arancio, MD PhD, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, NY, USA >A Barrett, MD, Penn State College of Medicine, PA, USA >R Camicioli MD, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada >L Cunningham PhD, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, NM, USA >A Dunah PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA >A Giuffrida, PhD University of California, Irvine, CA, USA >Yi He MD PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA >T Hershey PhD, Washington University, School of Medicine, WA, USA >Un Jung Kang MD, University of Chicago, IL, USA >Z Kiss, MD PhD, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada >C Klein MD, Medical University of Luebeck, Germany >J Lotharius, PhD, Lund University, Sweden >Jau-Shin Lou MD PhD, Oregon Health Sciences University, OR, USA >W Low PhD, University of Minnesota, MN, USA >A Mandir MD PhD, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA >I Mendez MD PhD FRCSC FACS, Dalhousie University, Novia Scotia, Canada >D Park PhD, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, NRI, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada >M Patel PhD, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, CO, USA >B Schulman PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, TN, USA >J Sidtis PhD LP, D Van Lancker PhD CCC/SLP, New York University, NY, USA >R Walker MD PhD, Bronx Veterans Research Foundation, NY, USA >K Widnell MD PhD, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA >Ming Yang MD PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, PA, USA >Xiaoxi Zhuang PhD, University of Chicago, IL, USA >... dare i say it again? y o w s a ! thank you pdf! janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky PD: 54/41/37 CD: 54/44/43 TEL: 613 256 8340 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] "a new voice" home page: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . "new voice news" latest posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nvnNET/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn