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I would imagine that organisations like this would tend to back riskier research that would struggle to get funding elsewhere. It may be that they back a wide v
by rozab 6y ago
I would imagine that organisations like this would tend to back riskier research that would struggle to get funding elsewhere. It may be that they back a wide variety of early stage trials, most of which go nowhere. There is a list of funded studies, which is excellent.
https://www.michaeljfox.org/funded-studies https://www.michaeljfox.org/funded-studies
- DoreenMichele 6y agoThanks. I'm a former homemaker with a serious medical condition. I also worked at an insurance company for over five years processing accident claims. This involved training in medical terminology and involved reading medical records daily. But I am generally looking for something more "plain English"/layman's terms than the titles on that page. And a guy with a PhD in Chemistry once told me, essentially, "Never read the abstract. It often says something different from the study. Read the study or skip it altogether as a waste of your time." So I would like to live in a world where every research foundation has a page that says something like this (made up example): "We are the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and our research helped develop Hypertonic Saline, a non-drug lung treatment. We were founded in X year and since then life expectancy for CF has gone from about 18 years of age to about 36 years of age. Although a cure is still far off, our work has tremendously improved both survival and quality of life in CF patients (insert more metrics supporting that last statement)."