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The FAST team welcomes and encourages volunteers. Whether you would like to volunteer for a specific FAST event, coordinate your own event for FAST or lend your expertise and/or talents to the FAST organization, we would love to hear from you. Click here for the volunteer form
Make a Donation
FAST is committed to finding a cure for Angelman Syndrome. Great strides have been made in understanding how the loss of UBE3A affects neuronal functioning resulting in Angelman Syndrome. Recent research suggests neurons form correctly in individuals with Angelman Syndrome, however they are impaired in synaptic functioning. We strongly believe that further research on how to resupply UBE3A to neurons, or compensate for the loss of UBE3A in neurons, will provide a viable treatment for individuals with Angelman Syndrome. This idea is strongly supported by exciting recent research in mouse models of Angelman Syndrome. To read more about this research, click here. Your donation will make this viable treatment possible. Click here to make a difference.
How Your Donation Helps
Basic research is the foundation for discoveries that lead to treatments for disease. We know what we need to do in order to attain our goal of curing Angelman Syndrome; fund the best and brightest to do excellent science. Most science is funded by the federal government through research grants to individuals. The time between applying for funding and receiving funding is close to 1 year!. Sadly, there is not enough money provided to the National Institutes of Health to fund all of the innovative proposals submitted for consideration. Our goal is to provide rapid review of proposals and sufficient funding to enable progress towards a cure for Angelman Syndrome in the most efficient way possible.
This is how and where your donation can help.
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