The Institute of Neurogenetics has been chosen by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) as one of five academic centers to host the fourth class of The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders.
Launched in 2014, MJFF’s Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders annually awards funding to five international academic medical centers to train one new movement disorder clinician-researcher (respectively) over a two-year period. By the year 2021, The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders aims to graduate 20 new movement disorder specialists around the world to care for people with Parkinson’s disease and connect the dots between their patients and important research discoveries.