News of a major consortium to develop therapies to tackle disease-causing genes. Funded by NATA is now @NATA_MRC_UK, Prof Tabrizi & colleagues at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology are collaborating with Oxford Neuroscience & numerous academic and industry partners to deliver this exciting research ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…

We're delighted to announce this ground-breaking study published in Nature Medicine, which shows a way to monitor the progression of Friedreich's ataxia using motion capture technology and AI. tinyurl.com/3jb6j62r

ICYMI: This year’s #RareDiseaseDay at NIH 2023 event is happening on Feb. 28! Can’t make it in person? That’s okay! Watch the livestream: videocast.nih.gov/watch=46435 #RDDNIH

If an ASO lowers target RNA 50% in bulk brain tissue, is it 50% in all cells or 100% in half? Are cell types all impacted equally? Does CSF reflect neuronal target engagement? We did single-cell seq in ASO-treated mice & NHPs to find out doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… Thread 👇

Join us at #RareDiseaseDay at NIH on Tuesday, February 28! We are hosting a virtual booth and meeting session during networking breaks. Several RDCRN participants will also speak during the event. Learn more and register: rarediseasesnetwork.org/news/rare-dise… #RDDNIH

Advocates for New Orleans' homeless population celebrates $15 million federal grant from US Department of Housing and Urban Development to address problem bit.ly/41v8SRe

Researchers have developed a new pipeline for measuring GAA repeats in the FXN gene that cause Friedreich's ataxia. buff.ly/3KKqjqe #FriederichsAtaxia #FriederichsAtaxiaNews #FACommunity

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Here’s the police body cam video showing what happened when a Hertz worker at the New Orleans airport called police because a Puerto Rican man kept insisting that his drivers license was valid. The Hertz worker denied the man his pre paid rental car because he couldn’t present

Click Here to support the 2023 Ponchatoula Softball Fundraiser verticalraise.com/fundraiser/202…

Nice to see our labs work is being taken to the next step!! So excited about the future and can’t wait to see the advances in therapeutics for rare neurological diseases. Proud I got to work on this for part of my dissertation project. #phdlife

James Miller Memorial Health Fair and Blood Drive this Saturday honors the August 1 birthday and the legacy of community service of an exceptional young man. tinyurl.com/56e5rjuz #LSUHSC FOX 8 New Orleans

Why this sum up my PhD so well 😂?

AcuraStem, a leader in ALS research, partners with Takeda to advance PIKFYVE therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. AcuraStem Takeda #ResearchPartnership #ALS #Neurology bit.ly/3EZOMW1

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: An exciting day as we launch, with Harrington Discovery Institute, our first funding call for proposals from researchers in the UK and US developing therapies for #rarediseases. Find out more here: oxfordharrington.org/award

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Check out FA Research Avengers' team fundraising page and donate to help support ataxia research! It’s such an exciting time in FA research and we are closer to a cure than ever before. - give.curefa.org/team/665384