Michael J. Fox Foundation Co-Founder and CEO Deborah W. Brooks, Founder Michael J. Fox, and EVP of Research Strategy Todd Sherer [Photo: MJF Foundation]
Alphabet-owned health data platform Verily relocated its headquarters to Dallas from San Francisco last year. Now, armed with the new MJFF grant, it aims to generate one of the world's largest, high-dimensional molecular datasets to advance Parkinson’s disease research.
A representative from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research visited The Legacy Midtown Park in Dallas and The Legacy Willow Bend in Plano to introduce the scratch-and-sniff test. According to the foundation, 100% of major brain disorders are associated with loss of smell. If you're over age 60 and don't have Parkinson's, you can take the test too.
You'll also find out about how research at UT Southwestern Medical Center could help children who have epileptic seizures related to a fatal disease in this roundup of research activity in North Texas.
Also, you'll learn about a researcher who's studying the effects of even mild traumatic brain injuries on veterans. Here are some of the research projects underway in North Texas that could make lives better.
UNT Health Science Center's Human Movement Performance Laboratory is using state of the art motion picture equipment and virtual reality to record and analyze the movement of people with mobility problems such as Parkinson's disease.
Addison-based Heads Up Technologies, which makes technology for aircraft cabins, agreed to be acquired by Thornton, Colorado-based Signia Aerospace for an undisclosed amount.
Heads Up, founded in 1985 and owned by private equity firm JLL Partners, makes a variety of aircraft cabin systems....
When Texas Woman’s University publicly launched its first-ever major fundraising campaign in September 2023, the goal was ambitious: raise $125 million by the Denton school’s 125th anniversary in 2026.
With less than two months remaining in the fundraising effort, the university isn’t just on track to meet that milestone — it’s blown past it....
Addison-based Heads Up Technologies, which makes technology for aircraft cabins, agreed to be acquired by Thornton, Colorado-based Signia Aerospace for an undisclosed amount.
Heads Up, founded in 1985 and owned by private equity firm JLL Partners, makes a variety of aircraft cabin systems....
When Texas Woman’s University publicly launched its first-ever major fundraising campaign in September 2023, the goal was ambitious: raise $125 million by the Denton school’s 125th anniversary in 2026.
With less than two months remaining in the fundraising effort, the university isn’t just on track to meet that milestone — it’s blown past it....