Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $1 Million to Accelerate Parkinson's Research
Made through MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards program, the grants will support research based on little or no existing preliminary data but which has the potential to open entirely new ways of understanding or treating Parkinson's disease....
Young Americans Interested in 'Voluntourism,' Survey Finds
According to a University of California San Diego Extension survey, high school and college students are more likely to have considered taking a so-called "volunteer vacation" than working adults and retirees....
Broad Institute Receives $100 Million for Endowment
The gift from the Broad Foundation is the first installment of Eli and Edythe Broad's $400 million pledge to build the endowment of the genomic medicine institute, which has grown to more than a thousand scientists in only five years....