Our research projects
As the leading European funder of Parkinson’s research, we have a multi-million pound funding programme, decades of experience, strong international networks, and a fantastic community of people with Parkinson's powering our research.
Parkinson's is on the rise. In the UK today, someone is diagnosed every 20 minutes. By 2050, the number of people with Parkinson’s worldwide will double to 25 million. There’s currently no cure.
But as the largest European charitable funder of Parkinson's research, we're determined to change that. We're leading the way to better treatments and together, we will find a cure.
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The research we're funding is getting closer to a cure: being able to stop, slow, reverse or prevent Parkinson’s. But we’re also delivering treatments that improve life with Parkinson’s right now.
You can choose to pledge your brain specifically to Parkinson’s research at the Parkinson's UK Brain Bank. They collect precious tissue from people with and without Parkinson's. And it's already led to major advances in our understanding of Parkinson's, and resulted in new treatments being developed and tested.
Priorities set by people with Parkinson's
People with Parkinson's and their loved ones sit on the panels that review each research project that applies to us for funding, and help us make decisions on what we should fund.
Our groundbreaking research aims to develop better treatments and a cure, but also support research to improve quality of life. To help us focus on what matters most, over the last several years we have worked on two surveys for members of the Parkinson's community. This helped us come up with a list of priority research areas for improving everyday life in the short term. And showed that priorities change over time.
These priority areas will help direct research efforts in improving everyday life with Parkinson’s.
Read about these priority areas on the Journal of Parkinson's Disease website.
Volunteer with us
We're committed to accelerating research to deliver groundbreaking new treatments. But we can't do this without you. Discover how you can become a research volunteer and help shape research.
Bring hope to the Parkinson’s community
We’re thinking big, funding the most promising research like EJS-ACT PD, the biggest Parkinson’s clinical trial to date. It’s not simply big in size. What sets it apart from previous research is that we can test multiple treatments, at the same time. That means we can get many answers, sooner.
Donate today and help give people living with Parkinson’s better treatments and a cure, right now.