I probably wasn’t the only person who was roped into a fair share of board games this holiday season. I was reintroduced to the classic whodunnit mystery game Clue by my older son.
In the Summer Research Newsletter published last week, I previewed the agenda and invited speakers for the 2024 8p Family & Science Conference, which kicks off today in Denver Colorado.
The last time 8p families and researchers gathered together to break bread over science and shared lived experience was at the Moving Mountains conference in Denver Colorado in the Summer of 2021, two years after Project 8p was launched by Bina Maniar.
Project 8p funded Professor Warmflash’s lab to study early fetal development in the lab using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from 8p heroes.
A Grand Unified Theory of Neurodevelopmental Chromosomal Disorders
Project 8p’s quest is to mend broken chromosomes. By making medicines for 8p heroes living with the fallout of genomic imbalance we might just solve one of biology’s most complex puzzles.
The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:
Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.
Lead with knowledge from patients. Currently, there is no cure for 8p disorders, nor is there a standard course of treatment.
The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:
Raise transformative funding for pioneering scientific research into treatments for a complex, rare disease involving 250+ affected genes on the short arm of the 8 th chromosome (8p). Rearrangements of these genes causes significant abnormalities to the entire neurological system, thus all organs and functions of the body– with variance in cognitive functions, gross motor skills, social development and other challenges during infancy, and throughout life;
Empower a unified community of 8p patients and their families so they can have meaningful lives today; and
Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.