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INTRODUCTION TO FOX TRIAL FINDER

Accelerating Clinical Trial Recruitment Online

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research 2

MJFF WAS FOUNDED WITH CLEAR OBJECTIVES

Drive the best Parkinson’s disease

research

Deliver improved therapies and a cure


HOW DO WE GET TO CURES?

»  It typically takes $1 billion and decades to develop new treatments

»  Clinical trials are the final step on the path to drug development

Recruiting Parkinson’s patients and healthy control volunteers is a rate limiting step in the drug development process

Discovery Target Validation

Therapeutic Development

Pre-Clinical Testing

Clinical Testing (I, II, III)

Regulatory Approval


CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPATION IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT »  85% of all clinical trials face delays and 30% never get off the ground due to a lack of volunteers

»  Though 60% of people with Parkinson’s say they would be willing to participate in a trial, fewer than 10% actually enroll

Under-enrollment in trials slows the progress toward breakthroughs and deters investment in Parkinson’s research


WHAT CAN BE DONE TO MAKE DRUG DEVELOPMENT FASTER AND LESS EXPENSIVE? »  Hundreds, sometimes thousands of volunteers are needed at the clinical stage

»  Both Parkinson’s patients and healthy control volunteers are eligible

»  The more volunteers we have for Parkinson’s clinical trials, the sooner we will have new treatments, and ultimately, a cure

No amount of funding or resources can make up for a lack of clinical trial volunteers


FOX TRIAL FINDER MATCHES VOLUNTEERS TO TRIALS THEY MAY QUALIFY FOR


OUR GOAL: HELPING YOU KNOW WHAT IS AVAILABLE »  Fox Trial Finder is about making sure that you know about the trials going on in your own backyard

»  Both Parkinson’s patients and healthy control volunteers are eligible

»  Volunteers are matched to trials that are looking for someone with the same demographic characteristics, medication history, diagnosis duration, etc…

»  Volunteers can then connect directly – online and anonymously – with members of the trial team to learn more

Fox Trial Finder makes it easy to act on the intention to get involved in research


CLINICAL TRIAL MATCHING: HOW IT WORKS

Volunteer completes profile

Possible matches iden5fied

Volunteer can mark interest or contact study

team

Coordinator reviews

anonymous profiles

Match is explored further

offline

Match is explored further offline

Coordinator reviews

anonymous profile

Volunteer can mark interest or

contact study team

Possible matches identified

Volunteer completes

profile


CREATING YOUR PROFILE: LOCATION, AGE, GENDER, MEDICAL HISTORY


»  Volunteers can review their suggested matches in more detail by clicking on the name of the trial

EXPLORING THE MATCH PROCESS: SUGGESTED MATCHES


»  Trial details provide in depth information about the trial, including: –  Purpose –  Description –  Focus –  Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria –  Site Locations

–  Contact information

EXPLORING THE MATCH PROCESS: TRIAL DETAILS


»  Indicate interest »  Send messages to trial teams »  Name, email and all identifying

information will never be released, unless provided by volunteer

TAKING ACTION: INDICATE INTEREST OR SEND A MESSAGE


»  Email alerts are sent when a new message is added to the database and when a new trial begins recruitment

NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT FUTURE TRIALS


JOIN FOX TRIAL FINDER AND HELP SPEED PD RESEARCH!

Sign Up Create a profile at

www.FoxTrial Finder.org

Share Tell support

groups, family, friends and networks

about Fox Trial Finder

Contact Send

questions & requests for materials to Support@

FoxTrialFinder.org

Do More Become an Ambassador and spread

the word about the importance

research participation

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