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Verily, a health data and artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has received a $14.7 million grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. This funding will support the creation of a comprehensive molecular dataset to advance Parkinson’s disease research.

The grant will enable Verily to use molecular profiling techniques to analyse clinical, imaging, and wearable-based behavioural and physiological data collected over several years as part of the Personalised Parkinson’s Project. This project involves analysing biological samples, including blood and cerebrospinal fluid, from over 500 participants with Parkinson’s disease.

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According to Mark Frasier, chief scientist at the Michael J. Fox Foundation, “The Michael J. Fox Foundation supports a broad portfolio exploring biological forms of Parkinson’s disease through molecular phenotyping. As part of those efforts, Verily’s new data resource aims to enable researchers to achieve breakthroughs on the underlying mechanisms of the disease and develop novel therapies that can improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers.

The resulting dataset will be made publicly available through Verily’s Workbench platform, allowing researchers worldwide to access and analyse the data. This collaboration builds on years of partnership between Verily and the Michael J. Fox Foundation to assemble datasets and make them easily accessible to researchers globally.

Andrew Trister, chief medical and scientific officer at Verily, said, “This grant expands upon our previous research efforts, enabling us to generate one of the most extensive molecular data assets of its kind, which global researchers will access through Verily’s platform to advance new discoveries in Parkinson’s disease.”

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