A conversation with the women and men involved in our foundation. Today we introduce you to Nicolas Theberge, Board Member at Ataxia Canada. AC: Can you describe your professional background? NT: I work for a medical technology company. For 10 years, I’ve been educating clinicians and physicians all about diagnosing...
Help us reach our first goal of 100 followers on LinkedIn! Our objective with this platform is to raise corporate awareness and get more visibility towards potential partners who would consider supporting our research projects and activities aimed at a better quality of life for people with familial ataxia. Like this...
Following my last article, I will continue to tell you my story. Last time around, I talked about my childhood and mentioned what was “wrong” with me. Today you are going to find out what is “wrong” there. So here we go! For 11 months, I had all kinds of...
The story I am going to tell you today is mine and how Friedreich’s ataxia came into my life. First, what is Friedreich’s ataxia? It is an incurable degenerative disease caused by genetics that affects the neuromuscular system and coordination. It all started when I was about 10 years old....
Hello, I will start by introducing myself : Dominique Ruiz-Courcelle, 50% Québécoise , 50% Salvadorian , 24 years old, speaks French, English and Spanish, lives in Gatineau, likes traveling, cinema, traveling , series , traveling, reading, traveling, eating, traveling, seeing shows, traveling… and traveling too! Meanwhile, I live with Friedreich’s Ataxia since my diagnosis at the age of 13. I say that I live in a shared apartment because I refuse...
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...