The Coronado Eagle & Journal

Third Annual Elleaire Fore Golf Tournament

Here we go! I’m delighted to announce that our next Elleaire Fore Golf Tournament will take place on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at the Coronado Golf Course. Prepare to tee ...
The New Yorker

The Mental Pratfalls of Anne Gridley, in “Watch Me Walk”

Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement ...
EurekAlert!

Breakthrough on gene therapy for hereditary spastic paraplegia

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...
EurekAlert!

Boston Children’s Hospital receives $8.1M to expand research for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Boston Children’s Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., ...
News Medical

Boston Children's Hospital secures $8.1M for spastic paraplegia research

Boston Children's Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., ...
Frontiers

Translational Research in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias: Filling the Diagnosis Gap and Therapeutic Perspectives

This Research Topic is the second volume in the "Insights in Neurogenesis" series. You can find Volume I here. Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are a group of rare clinically and genetically ...
alaskasnewssource

‘Slip away’: Juneau family races the clock for a clinical trial

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - A Juneau family is racing against a ticking clock to secure funding for a clinical trial that they say could alter the course of their four-year-old’s life. “He doesn’t know ...
People

Toddler Diagnosed with Rare Disease at 2. After Years of Life-Changing Therapy, His Progress Could Be Stripped Away (Exclusive)

Now 4, Cade Jobsis has been receiving treatment that helps keep him strong. But with funding pulled, his parents don't know how much longer he'll get it Leah Serena Photography After going through the ...
precisionmedicineonline

Parents Behind Rare SPG56 Disorder Charity Push Gene Therapy Toward First-in-Human Trial

NEW YORK – Genetic Cures for Kids (GC4K), a nonprofit charity founded to spur discovery of treatments for an extremely rare childhood-onset neurological condition, is gearing up to begin a ...
IEEE

Sensor-based Stride Segmentation and Gait Parameter Extraction Using a Hidden Markov Model in Patients with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Abstract: Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) comprises a group of neurodegenerative disorders causing progressive lower limb symptoms primarily affecting gait functions. Progressive symmetric gait ...
TMCnet

BlackfinBio Announces FDA Clearance to Initiate Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for Novel AAV Gene Therapy BFB-101 to Treat the Rare Neurological Disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia ...

CHESHIRE, United Kingdom, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BlackfinBio Ltd, a clinical stage gene therapy company focused on the development of treatments for rare neurological diseases, announces ...