Advancing the most promising movement disorders research and treatments
Advancing the most promising movement disorders research and treatments
Young Investigator Pilot Grants (YIPG) represent our greatest commitment to translational and clinical research that advances the prevention, treatment and/or ultimate cure for all movement disorders. We fund “high risk/ high reward” research that establishes cross-disease analysis and investigation aimed at developing new insights into the pathophysiology, etiology and/or treatment of multiple movement disorders.
To be eligible for consideration, applicants are required to address specific applicability to two or more movement disorders in their research and demonstrate the potential to facilitate rapid translation to clinically useful therapies. In 2024, Movement Disorders Foundation funded three research projects with specific applicability to Huntington’s disease, as well as one other movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, or dystonia. Click on the images of our award recipients for more information on their inspiring projects.
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Young Investigator Pilot Grants are funded by individual donors like you. Annual grants of $50,000 are awarded to recipients for direct support of research. If substantial productivity is demonstrated in the first year, the grant may be renewed for an additional year if the awardee can demonstrate how the funding will facilitate competition for a NIH R01 grant or equivalent.
Movement Disorders Foundation offers donors at all levels of giving the opportunities to support individual research projects as well as specific disease categories such as Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, dystonia and other movement disorders. We also offer different ways to contribute, to include individual giving, company matches and a peer-to-peer fundraising platform that allows supporters to raise money by creating their own personalized campaign.
Most importantly, all of our supporters receive routine communication on their funded research including breakthroughs and progress reports on their funded projects, insights from researchers and experts in the field, videos from researchers and virtual lab tours, impact metrics, Q&A sessions with researchers and more. Our goal is to engage you in a meaningful way and keep you informed and excited about the research you are funding. Click
here to learn more on how to get involved and get connected to cutting edge movement disorders research.
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2024 HDSA Rocky Mountain Family Education Day - now available online
Click the video screen below to watch the 2024 Rocky Mountain Huntington’s Disease Society of America Family Education Day, recorded on Saturday, October 19, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, featuring presentations by the region's leading physicians and medical experts on Huntington's disease research. Presented by the Movement Disorders Foundation, and the Rocky Mountain and University of Colorado Movement Disorders Centers.