Barb Bailus,PhD Hello Everyone! Today we want to congratulate our FIRE team member Dr. Anne Anderson for being awarded a highly competitive Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant in 2018 from the Orphan Disease Center . Dr. Anderson was awarded a $45,000 grant available for Angelman Syndrome (AS) in the 2018 edition of the MDBR event. The Million
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SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Anderson
Barb Bailus, PhD It may seem odd that FAST has added an HIV expert to the SAB, but Dr. Joseph Anderson also specializes in stem cells and unique delivery methods for biological therapeutics. Dr. Anderson received his PhD from Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Dr. Anderson currently has a laboratory at University of California, Davis
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Black
Barb Bailus, PhD As FAST funded science moves toward clinical trials, it has become essential to add SAB members that are familiar with the process of human clinical trials and FDA regulations. As this need became more apparent, Dr. Allyson Berent reached out to Dr. Lauren Black who had advised Dr. Timothy Yu on the Milasen Batten Disease
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Silverman
Barb Bailus, PhD With the introduction of the newest AS animal model, the FAST funded LEGEND-rat, it was time to add “rat whisperer” Dr. Jill Silverman to the SAB. This new rat model, which was described in detail at the 2018 FAST gala, was behaviorally characterized by Dr. Jill Silverman, Dr. Ed Weeber and Dr.
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Alberini
Barb Bailus, PhD Dr. Cristina Alberini is an international addition to the FAST SAB, hailing from Italy. Dr. Alberini received her PhD from University of Genoa, Italy. She did her postdoctoral work at Columbia University focusing on learning and memory, using sea slugs as her model organism. Since sea slugs are not a common disease
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Duis
Barb Bailus, PhD FAST is always on the lookout for excellent physicians who interact with AS patients and can help design and explain what is feasible in a clinical trial. Dr. Jessica Duis is one such physician, and is currently the medical director of the Angelman Syndrome comprehensive clinic at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Tennessee. Dr.
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Zylka
Barb Bailus, PhD Dr. Mark Zylka is so new to FAST that he hasn’t yet joined us at a FAST Gala, but that is something that should change this year. He did listen to all 11 hours of the FAST Science Summit in 2018, which inspired him to work more closely with the mission of
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Beaudet
Barb Bailus, PhD Our next new scientific advisory board (SAB) member could be considered the grandfather of Angelman syndrome (AS), Dr. Art Beaudet. Dr. Beaudet received his MD from Yale and did his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins before joining Baylor College of Medicine, where he has resided since 1971. Dr.Beaudet first became interested in AS
SAB Meet and Greet: Welcome Dr. Yu
Barb Bailus, PhD Today we start a series of posts to introduce our newest FAST Scientific Advisory Board members; it is an honor to welcome such an amazing group of scientists! Several of these scientists have been members of the Angelman community for a long time, and others are fairly new but offer exciting insights
Angels in the City – Celebrating Angelman research in Los Angeles
By Lauren Hoffer Getting out of town is hard. I don’t need to tell any of you this. The day before we left, Greg looked at me and said, “Today is going to be painful.” We had fast and furious workdays squaring things away. We did the usual parenting gig; “keeping the babies alive” we
