ANNOUNCING a new Biorepository partnership between COMBINEDBrain and UMDF! This newly launched opportunity for #mito patients to participate directly in advancing #mitoresearch is COMING SOON to a city near you! Read the full announcement here: umdf.org/umdf-partners-…

Join us on Monday, April 14 at 12:00pm ET for a Bench-to-Bedside talk on Mitochondrial Genetics and Use of Biomarkers for Mitochondrial Disease, moderated by Dr. Fernando Scaglia with speakers from Children's Hospital and Mayo Clinic. FREE webinar. Register: umdf-mitou.teachable.com/p/mitou-umdfbtb

Join us on Monday, April 14 at 12:00pm ET. Jing Wang, MD from Children's Hospital and Devin Oglesbee, PhD from Mayo Clinic will present on Mitochondrial Genetics and Use of Biomarkers for #MitochondrialDisease. FREE webinar, but please register at umdf-mitou.teachable.com/p/mitou-umdfbtb

📢 📢 NEW PROGRAMMING for #MitoMed Clinical-Scientific conference attendees! Meet us in St. Louis, June 18-21, for our annual conference, and on Saturday, engage in a Masterclass on Primary Mitochondrial Myopathy (#PMM) with a Focus on #TK2d. Visit umdfconference.org/masterclass

Later today, UMDF's Philip Yeske, PhD will be a panelist at the Mitochondrial Transplantation and Next Generation Therapeutics Conference at Hofstra University on Long Island (NY). #PatientCentered #mitochondrialresearch #mitotransplant #mito #mitochondrialdisease

Join us next week for two free educational webinars! Bench-to-Bedside talk on Mon, 5/12: umdf-mitou.teachable.com/p/mitou-umdfbtb Ask the Mito Doc on Tues, 5/13: umdf.org/event/umdf-ask…

REMINDER: Don't miss this Bench-to-Bedside talk on Monday, 5/12 at 12pm ET on "Chair Highlights for Upcoming UMDF Mito Med 2025." Click here to register for this free webinar: umdf-mitou.teachable.com/p/mitou-umdfbtb

#Mitochondrialdisease is once again an eligible topic for PRMRP funding FY25, and we encourage interested researchers to apply! DEADLINE to submit a pre-application: June 9 at 5 pm ET. Watch the PRMRP Funding Opportunities Webinar and learn more here: umdf.org/prmrp-fy25-web…

New Conference Speaker Alert! Dr. Douglas Wallace will co-lead the “How to Build Industry Partnerships” Roundtable with Dr. Bruce Cohen during Saturday's Masterclass for the Early Career Investigators Track. Join us for a #MitoMed to remember. umdfconference.org/masterclass

We're so excited to be kicking off #MitoMed 2025 in St. Louis! Starting today and throughout the week, researchers will be conducting studies onsite in the #ClinicalResearch Pavilion -- researchers like Diego Santos from Children's Hospital !

The UMDF's venture philanthropy arm, The Mito Fund, has invested in Pretzel Therapeutics. Pretzel's PX578 recently entered Phase 1 clinical development in the U.S. and offers a promising approach for the treatment of #POLG disorders. Full announcement: themitofund.org/the-mito-fund-…

UMDF is proud to announce our 2025 Grant Cycle researchers -- collaboratively funded this year with our partner, Mito Foundation, in Australia. Additionally, our partner, The Lily Foundation in the UK, has helped fund the 2025 accelerators award! umdfconference.org/umdf-mito-foun…

Announcing $100,000 in #mitoresearch grant funding for Nan-Kai Wang, MD, PHD of Columbia University for his project "Unraveling the Effects of SSBP1 Mutation on Vision." #vision #mitochondrialdisease #research

Announcing $100,000 in #mitoresearch grant funding for Norma Frizzell, PHD of the University of South Carolina for her project "Anaplerotic odd-chain fatty acid therapy for the treatment of Leigh Syndrome." #leighsyndrome #mitochondrialdisease #research

Announcing $100,000 in #mitoresearch grant funding for Christian Bergamini, PHD of the University of Bologna for his project "Elucidating Mitochondrial Impairment in Troyer Syndrome." #mitochondrialdysfunction #research

Announcing $100,000 in #mitoresearch grant funding for Caterina Garone, MD, PHD of the University of Bologna for her project "NanoMDS – Nanomedicines nucleotides or RNA therapeutics delivery for treating mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes." #mitochondrialdisease #research

Announcing $32,500 in #ClinicalTrial Readiness grant funding for Florence Van Tienen, PHD of Maastricht University for her project "Optimizing cryopreservation of muscle stem cell medicinal product for direct clinical administration in Mitochondrial Myopathy patients."

Announcing $50,000 in #ClinicalTrial Readiness grant funding for Dmitrii Smirnov, MS of Jellyfish Bio, Inc. for "Validating Digital Functional Assessments in Mitochondrial Diseases: A Multinational Smartphone and Wearable Validation Study." #mitochondrialdisease Dmitrii (Dima) Smirnov

Announcing $50,000 in collaborative #mitoresearch funding from The Lily Foundation, Mito Foundation, and UMDF for the 2025 accelerators award to Anastasia Dimitriou, PhD of Northumbria University at Newcastle for her project "Monoclonal antibody therapy for Leigh syndrome." #leigh

ALL patients, families, clinicians, and researchers are welcome to join us for a special Bench-to-Bedside talk on Mitchondrial Replacement Therapy on September 5 at 10am ET featuring international #mito partners and clinicians. Free but please Register: umdf.org/event/mitochon…