Bold, Strategic Risks
The extraordinary momentum we’ re witnessing in Parkinson’ s research can be traced back to the seminal partnership of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation.
From our start, The Michael J. Fox Foundation has sought to take bold, strategic risks, guided always by the voices of people and families living with Parkinson’ s. Through the visionary leadership of the late Mrs. Lily Safra, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation’ s early philanthropic support empowered us to tackle the field’ s toughest problems with novel ideas.
Central to that work has been our collaboration to establish and sustain the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders.
Launched in 2014, the Fellowship was designed to build a distinguished global network of Parkinson’ s clinicianresearchers— leaders who would have a powerful proximity to both patient insights and groundbreaking research. Today, these movement disorder specialists, trained by expert faculty at premier movement disorder centers, help fill critical care gaps while strengthening the research-to-clinical-care continuum.
Edmond J. Safra Fellows are vital to our mission to end Parkinson’ s. Each graduating class broadens patient access to high-quality care worldwide and deepens the network of expert mentors training future generations of specialists. And as Parkinson’ s research unlocks its biggest mysteries— from a deeper disease understanding to therapies that slow progression— these exceptional clinician-scientists are on
2 The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders