Actor and philanthropist Michael J. Fox won this year’s Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, which the “Back to the Future” star plans to use to further his foundation’s work to find treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
“There’s such shame associated with this illness,” Fox said. “It’s so ridiculous, this great need to keep it secret. The cruel thing of it is it’s going to out you eventually.”
Former President Bill Clinton said he was “awestruck” by Fox. “I’ve known Michael J. Fox for a long time, and he looks better every time I see him,” he said. “He is a brave, good man.” “He is an icon,” Elevate Prize Foundation CEO Carolina García Jayaram told The Associated Press in an interview. “He was able to use the power of his story to introduce to so many people what this disease was and make us care about it.”” and was “the perfect person at the perfect time” as the more than $2 billion Fox’s foundation has raised for research since it launched in 2000 has made a major difference in the understanding of the disease.
Deborah Brooks, co-founder and CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, said the award comes at an important time for the nonprofit. In April, a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease was, a “seismic shift” that will help improve chances for creating treatments and tests that can detect the disease in living patients.
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