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Articles by Jenny Montooth
Celebrating Michael J. Fox's Lasker Award and the Community Behind It
On September 9, 2026, Michael J. Fox received the 2026 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award, one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedical science, recognizing his work to empower the voices of people with Parkinson’s and accelerate research toward better treatments and a cure. For Michael, the recognition belongs to a much larger community. “Receiving a Lasker is humbling,” Michael said.
Why Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Are More Connected Than We Once Thought
For most people, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease are thought of as two very different conditions. Parkinson's primarily affects movement, while Alzheimer's is best known for causing memory loss and changes in thinking. Increasingly, however, researchers are discovering that these diseases may have more in common than previously thought.
How Many Genes is Too Many? Breeding Crops to Withstand the Elements
By Jenny Montooth It might come as a surprise, but many of the plants in a typical salad actually have more genes than you do. That doesn’t make them more complex than humans, but it does show that they are built for adaptability. Plants can’t move when conditions change. Instead, they rely on their genetic diversity to adapt to shifts such as climate change, pest outbreaks, soil variation, and changing farming practices.
Scientific Leader in Lifestyle Medicine and Mentor Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD, Awarded 2025 Robert A. Pritzker Prize
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) awarded the 2025 Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research to Bastiaan (Bas) Bloem, MD, PhD, professor of movement disorder neurology and director of the Center of Expertise for Parkinson’s Disease at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
NIH invites press to discuss new investments in RNA research
Media are invited to attend an expert panel discussion on current and future investments in RNA research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will convene researchers who are working on the latest RNA research efforts, including methods for sequencing RNA and detecting RNA modifications. Both in-person and virtual participation is available.
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