NOTICE OF VACANCIES TO THE ATAXIA CANADA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Posted on: 2019-10-01 – Posted by: Ataxia Canada – Category: publications – Deadline: October 30th, 2020 Dear Members, At the next annual general assembly on November 29th 2020, we will elect three (3) members to the Board of Directors. We...
Since its inception, the Ataxia Canada Foundation has had the mission of supporting research to contribute to the development of therapies targeting both the causes and the effects of different forms of ataxia. The pursuit of this objective is still very much alive within the administration and the members of the Foundation. Research funded by...
Covid-19. It has taken hold of our world and thrown our lives into chaos. Over night school stopped, sports weren’t running, some jobs shut down and we went weeks without face-to-face interactions. It devastated a lot of people financially, mentally, emotionally and physically. It has given me a lot of...
Despite the situation of COVID-19, We still wanted to honor our commitment and did a draw for the travel lottery and broadcast everything via a FACEBOOK LIVE broadcast… Thank you for your participation! https://www.facebook.com/ataxie.canada/ I suggest you ’follow’ ’and like’ our page! Congratulations to our winners for the prizes of...
Late-onset hereditary dominant episodic ataxia in French Canadians Dr David Pellerin 1, Dr. Mathilde Renaud 2, Mrs. Karine Choquet 1, Prof. Martine Tétreault 3, Mrs. Sylvie Provost 3, Mrs. Marie-Josée Dicaire 1, Dr Roberta La Piana 1, Dr Rami Massie 1, Dr Colin Chalk 1, Dr. Anne-Louise Lafontaine 1, Prof. Marie-Pierre...
Gene editing of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for Friedreich’s ataxia using CRISPR/Cas9 technology Dr. Celine Rocca 1, Ms. Shi Yanmeng 1, Mr. Jay Sharma 1, Dr. Prashant Mali 1, Dr. Stephanie Cherqui 1 University of California, San Diego Our goal is now to develop an autologous HSPC...
Friedreich Ataxia Collaborative Clinical Research Network and Natural History Research Project We want to inform you that Dr. Antoine Duquette, a neurologist at the CHUM, and his research team will now be responsible for a site in Montreal that integrates the Collaborative Research Network in Friedreich Ataxia (CCRN in FA)...