Do you have a Facebook profile or a Twitter account and do you spend a certain number of hours on it each week? On there you share your news, your photos, your moods with others (loved ones, colleagues, true friends and Facebook friends.) Did you know that your social...
Publication of Jacques P. Tremblay’s team. AAV9 frataxin Friedreich ataxia An AAV9 coding for frataxin clearly improved the symptoms and prolonged the life of Friedreich ataxia mouse models
28 February 2015 marks the eighth international Rare Disease Day coordinated by EURORDIS. On and around this day hundreds of patient organisations from more than 80 countries and regions worldwide are planning awareness-raising activities around the slogan Day-by-day, hand-in-hand.
The Relentless Work Editorial This is our second edition of the year, the first having come out in January. A lack of texts and resources is responsible for this long break. Here is some recent news I’d like to share. A few weeks ago, during the annual general meeting, a...
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On September, 20 Hugo Landreville, muralist graffiti artist, created a chalk picture on theme near CHUM Research Center on St-Denis Street in Montreal. The aim of the event is to raise awareness on underfunding of research on rare diseases, including hereditary ataxias.
We are currently considering a new form of funding for Professor Tremblay’s project. Our goal is to develop a mouse model for the research on Friedreich’s Ataxia. The research project will soon be published in the American crowdfundig site CONSANO. Ataxia Canada will contribute equally to the amount collected. Access to...