Actor Michael J. Fox is one of the best known Parkinson sufferers. As of 2006, his foundation gave more than $50 millions dollars to Parkinson research. About $1.2 million of that went to the University of Wisconsin’s stem cell studies.
In 2005, Fox visited the Waisman Center on campus. If the cause isn’t known, Fox hoped at least a treatment, or methods of early detection, could be found.
“I realized the best role for me to play was research, and dole out those dollars to researchers,” he said during a news conference at the center on February 1, 2005.