£5 million new funding to find cure for Parkinson's

The Monument Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Trusts, is donating £5 million over five years to fund research to help find a cure for Parkinson's.

The Monument Discovery Award has been given to the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Consortium, a team of researchers at the University of Oxford led by Dr Richard Wade-Martins.

The late Simon Sainsbury, who established the Monument Trust, had Parkinson's, which is why the Trustees approached the Parkinson's Disease Society with an offer to fund innovative new research to find a cure.

The funding is the largest single trust donation that the Society has ever received.

Scientists from across the UK were invited to apply for the Discovery Award, and seven of the best teams in the UK made the shortlist.

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