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Building Awareness on CMT and Supporting the Patient Community – HNF Announces Support from Pharnext
HNFpharnext recently entered into a partnership with the French biopharmaceutical company, Pharnext, to help raise awareness of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and support the CMT patient community through several initiatives. Building awareness is key! Pharnext’s support will assist HNF in distributing HNF’s CMT Update quarterly newsletter, enhancing the Global Registry for Inherited Neuropathies (GRIN), setting up activities for CMT September Awareness Month in the US and strengthening the CMT Inspire Community.
Lyme Disease and Charcot-Marie-tooth: What You Need to Know
Sufferers of Lyme Disease and Charcot-Marie- Tooth often share many commonalities about their disease
WEDDING FOR A CAUSE!
Cheryl and Robert made the altruistic decision to ask their wedding guests to make a donation to HNF in lieu of traditional gifts.
Join Team CMT – Be a part of finding a cure!
You can join us, and truly make a difference. Register to be a Team CMT member and you’ll be part of an international effort to change the future for those living with CMT.
Meet Elizabeth Stenz, Team CMT Member
Her sister was diagnosed with CMT when she was 14, and since then her and many family members have become very familiar with the disease and have worked to raise awareness.
In Memoriam
The HNF family has lost two great people this summer: Franklin G. Downing Sr. (father of board member Matthew Downing) and George G. Gatta (father of board member Kathleen Zappola).
Introducing A New Scientific Advisory Board Member
Nadia Litterman, PhD is Collaborations Director at Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), where she aims to identify and develop collaborations for drug discovery using CDD’s innovative informatics technologies.
Targeting PMP22 in CMT1A Patients with Gene Duplication
In previous collaborative work with a group of investigators including Dr Rolf Renne from the University of Florida, Dr. Alex Murashov from East Carolina University and Dr. Lynn Hudson from the NIH-NINDS, we validated a microRNA known as miR29a as a reagent that corrected the expression level of PMP22 in rodent Schwann cells.
Grab Your Shoes and Spin CRANK Style NYC!
Dust off those spin shoes and come out to CRANK NYC (Upper East Side – 1658 Third Avenue) Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm and Spin-For-A- Cure!
September is CMT Awareness Month
CMT awareness month is an entire month dedicated to building awareness, raising funds and finding a cure. The Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) has committed to spend 30 days in September hosting local and national events, launching fundraisers, and spreading the word about the effects of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
CMT Research Update: The Drug Discovery Process
Learn more about the process of drug discovery and bringing a drug to market.
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