Cyclist's foundation to fund neuro center
Before Lance Armstrong, there was Davis Phinney, whose own bicycling blitzkrieg netted him so many victories that even today he remains the nation's winningest cyclist, with more than 300 national and international victories. He was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease in 2000 at the age of 40.
The Davis Phinney Foundation, which Phinney founded to support research on the disease, has designated the Stanford Neuroscience Institue its second DPF Research Center for Parkinson's Disease. The first is the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
The foundation has committed to raising $1 million for the Stanford center over the next five years. In a fundraiser in June, held in collaboration with local cycling enthusiasts, the Denver-based DPF raised between $220,000 and $250,000 toward that goal, according to Rick Tallman, executive director of the foundation.