MJFF has launched Fox Trial Finder – an online clinical trial matching tool designed to speed research by making faster connections between volunteers and recruiting PD clinical trials. www.foxtrialfinder.org

As you likely know, clinical trials and studies play a critical role in the work to discover new Parkinson’s research, and yet persistent challenges in identifying participants for these trials and studies represent one of the most significant problems facing Parkinson’s drug development today. Up to 80% of trials fail to recruit enough volunteers within planned timelines.

With Fox Trial Finder, volunteers looking to participate in studies can use the web to find trials relevant to them and their personal experience with Parkinson’s, and, reciprocally, clinical trial teams have a way to connect faster and more efficiently with motivated volunteers. As the Fox Trial Finder volunteer community grows, we believe it will become an increasingly important asset to the PD research community, assuring clinical trial coordinators and funders of PD research that when they initiate a trial they will have a ready first stop for recruiting participants.

Fox Trial Finder is part of a broader MJFF effort to raise awareness about the importance of clinical research and to share this opportunity to participate in work for a cure in a very personal manner with communities across the country.

As you consider participation in clinical trials, please know that Fox Trial Finder is a tool to help PWPs and their friends and family get involved in research and for speeding progress to a cure.

Best, Debi