Research

The Need for Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are a necessary step in the process of identifying new treatments and moving them on to the pharmacy shelves for Parkinson’s patients.

Sadly, there is a chronic shortage of volunteers for clinical trials and this has become a obstacle in the path for a cure.

Join us and become one of the thousands of volunteers who participate in the search for a cure or therapies that benefit people with Parkinsons’s Disease.

Volunteers for Clinical Trials

The lack of volunteers results in some clinical trials facing delays or never getting started. People with Parkinson’s, family members and friends are all eligible to participate.You can find trials that need you and are in your area by clicking on the following links or searching online:

• Michael J. Fox Foundation Trialfinder
• University of Colorado Movement Disorders Center
• Connect Parkinson
  Researches the feasibility and effectiveness of using video calls to bring expert Parkinson disease care directly to patients’ homes. Enrollment in this study is now complete, but you can sign up to be notified about future studies.
• NIH Clinical Trials
  With the National Institutes of Health
• My Clinical Trial Locator
  To search for clinical trial information
• The BioCollective
  Recent studies suggest a link between the microbiome and things like obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma and allergies, neurological disease. This group collects stool samples for microbiome research.