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Parkinson's Vaccine in the Works HealthNewsDigest.com / By The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Feb 13, 2009 - 5:23:58 PM HealthNewsDigest.com) - HOUSTON - Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have received a $325,000 award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to develop a vaccine for this progressive neurological disorder that affects about a million Americans. Rowen J. Y. Chang, Ph.D., left, and Chuantao Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., both with the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), a part of the UT Health Science Center at Houston, received one of seven drug development awards funded through a special one-time academic funding track of the foundation's Therapeutics Development Initiative. The program seeks to leverage academic scientists' increasingly sophisticated approaches to drug development for Parkinson's disease. Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn