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Profile a Sanfilippo Researcher: Ewan Gerken
Meet Ewan Gerken, a PhD Candidate at The University of Adelaide. Ewan uses zebrafish models of Sanfi...
Thursday, 16th Nov 23
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Inaugural Australian Lysosomal Disease Summit
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation team were delighted to be a part of the inaugural Lysosomal D...
Tuesday, 7th Nov 23
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Insights into the economic impact of Sanfilippo syndrome
Sanfilippo syndrome is a rare and fatal disease with no current treatment or cure. It not only affec...
Tuesday, 10th Oct 23
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Diverting heparan sulfate breakdown to help treat Sanfilippo
Heparan sulfate (HS) is vital in the body. It is important for cells to communicate with other cells...
Monday, 18th Sep 23
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Biomarkers for Sanfilippo
Being able to easily and accurately confirm a diagnosis and predict and monitor an individual’s di...
Monday, 21st Aug 23
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Managing behavioural symptoms in Sanfilippo syndrome
Managing behavioural symptoms in Sanfilippo syndrome
In Sanfilippo, the build-up of waste product...
Monday, 10th Jul 23
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Cutting up antibodies may help improve access to gene therap...
In the fight against Sanfilippo syndrome and other similar genetic conditions, one of the most promi...
Tuesday, 27th Jun 23
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2023 Solving Sanfilippo Symposium - the power of a gathering
You cannot underestimate the power of bringing people together!
The 2023 Solving Sanfilippo Sympo...
Thursday, 8th Jun 23
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Dr Emma Parkinson-Lawrence
Meet Dr Emma Parkinson-Lawrence, a researcher at the University of South Australia who works on Sanf...
Tuesday, 4th Apr 23
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Investigating vision loss in Sanfilippo type C mice
A recently published study has investigated the effects of Sanfilippo on the retina—a layer of cel...
Friday, 31st Mar 23
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Sanfilippo syndrome Brain in a Dish project to continue with...
We are thrilled to announce that the Sanfilippo Brain in a Dish research team have been awarded a $7...
Wednesday, 15th Mar 23
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WORLDsymposium 2023 updates
The annual international Lysosomal Storage Diseases conference, WORLDSymposium 2023, was held in Orl...
Thursday, 9th Mar 23
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Overcoming the blood-brain barrier: therapy delivery for San...
Severe neurodegeneration that starts in childhood is a defining feature of Sanfilippo syndrome. To t...
Wednesday, 8th Feb 23
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Gene-corrected neural stem cells show promise in Sanfilippo ...
US researchers have used a combined stem cell and gene therapy approach in a mouse model of Sanfilip...
Monday, 30th Jan 23
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Can resveratrol activate autophagy in Sanfilippo?
Researchers at the University of Gdansk in Poland have studied naturally occurring molecules that ac...
Wednesday, 11th Jan 23
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The Year in Review: a year of progress and achievements
As 2022 draws to a close we take a look at the year’s highlights and look forward to what next yea...
Thursday, 29th Dec 22
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Congratulations, Professor Ian Alexander!
Congratulations to Professor Ian Alexander, the 2022 recipient of Research Australia’s prestigious...
Friday, 9th Dec 22
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Profile a Sanfilippo Researcher: A/Prof. Jan Kaslin
Meet A/Prof Jan Kaslin, a researcher at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash Unive...
Tuesday, 6th Dec 22
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Towards an enzyme replacement therapy for Sanfilippo type B ...
Biotechnology company Allievex Corporation has released early data from their phase 1/2 clinical tri...
Tuesday, 29th Nov 22
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The first-ever global consensus clinical care guidelines for...
For decades, clinicians and families have lacked clear guidance in making decisions about the timing...
Saturday, 29th Oct 22
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New research describes potential cause of wasting and energy...
Researchers from the USA have investigated metabolism and energy balance in a Sanfilippo type A mous...
Wednesday, 26th Oct 22
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High GAG levels impact the cell cycle in Sanfilippo and rela...
A research study by Professor Grzegorz Węgrzyn and his team from the University of Gdansk, Poland, ...
Thursday, 20th Oct 22
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Natural History Study sheds light on Sanfilippo syndrome typ...
In preparation for the ongoing clinical trial of their enzyme replacement therapy for children with ...
Monday, 17th Oct 22
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State of play: Development of therapies targeting autophagy ...
Therapies targeting autophagy are a potential therapeutic avenue under development for Sanfilippo.
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Thursday, 29th Sep 22
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Testing optimised gene therapy for Sanfilippo type B
Newly-published research, led by Professor Coy Heldermon at the University of Florida, and partly fu...
Monday, 12th Sep 22
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The effects of high heparan sulfate levels in the lung in Sa...
A recently-published study, led by a team in France, has looked at how elevated HS in disorders like...
Tuesday, 23rd Aug 22
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Prof Kim Hemsley and Dr Adeline Lau: Celebrating 20 years wo...
Twenty years ago, Kim Hemsley and Adeline Lau began their work at the Women’s and Children’s Hos...
Wednesday, 17th Aug 22
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SOBI Sanfilippo type A enzyme replacement trial results publ...
Results from a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of SOBI003, a modified sulfam...
Thursday, 4th Aug 22
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Chaperone therapy shows promise in Sanfilippo type C mouse m...
In work partly funded by Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation, a team of researchers, led by Professor...
Monday, 18th Jul 22
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From misdiagnosis to early diagnosis: can we rewrite the sto...
Improving early diagnosis would remove the long, distressing diagnostic odyssey for families. It wou...
Monday, 27th Jun 22
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State of play: Development of therapies targeting neuroinfla...
Neuroinflammation is inflammation that affects the brain or spinal cord. Researchers looking at Sanf...
Wednesday, 8th Jun 22
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The importance of caregivers’ perspectives when evaluating...
A recent study has collected data from caregivers of patients with Sanfilippo to support clinical ou...
Tuesday, 17th May 22
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Clinical trial updates from WORLDSymposium
The annual international Lysosomal Storage Diseases conference WORLDSymposium was held in San Diego ...
Wednesday, 20th Apr 22
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A study of Fluoxetine in mice with Sanfilippo type A
Researchers from TIGEM, Federico II University, and IBBC in Italy, have studied a molecule called Fl...
Wednesday, 30th Mar 22
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Brain in a Dish - project update
The Brain in a Dish research project began in July 2019 with the support of a $2 million grant from ...
Monday, 14th Mar 22
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Exploring gene activity to understand symptoms and severity ...
Researchers have sought to get a better understanding of the biology that lies behind the variation ...
Monday, 7th Mar 22
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The impacts of COVID-19-related distance learning on childre...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected children’s education, with many classrooms moved online and tea...
Wednesday, 23rd Feb 22
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Prestigious Dementia Australia Fellowship for young Sanfilip...
In what is a fantastic outcome, both for a talented young researcher and for Sanfilippo syndrome res...
Wednesday, 16th Feb 22
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Proudly launching the Global Roadmap For Sanfilippo Syndrome...
Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation (Australia), Cure Sanfilippo Foundation (USA) and our sister orga...
Wednesday, 9th Feb 22
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New type A ERT candidate on track for clinical trial
Japanese company, JCR Pharmaceuticals, has received an orphan drug designation from the European Com...
Tuesday, 1st Feb 22
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New mouse model helps researchers see into the Sanfilippo ty...
Recently, researchers in the USA, in collaboration with biotech company Phoenix Nest Inc, developed ...
Friday, 21st Jan 22
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Supporting patients with Sanfilippo using music
A study led by researchers at the University of Deusto in Spain has described three patients with Sa...
Wednesday, 5th Jan 22
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Profile a Sanfilippo Researcher: Dr. Elvira De Leonibus
We are very grateful to all the researchers around the world working tirelessly to solve Sanfilippo....
Wednesday, 8th Dec 21
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USA team awarded funding to study ultra-rare Sanfilippo type...
USA-based biotech company, Phoenix Nest Biotech, has been awarded a US$3.4 million grant from the US...
Wednesday, 1st Dec 21
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Feeding and gut problems in Sanfilippo
While Sanfilippo Syndrome predominantly affects the brain, it also has an impact on many other body...
Friday, 26th Nov 21
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A new Sanfilippo brain cell model provides clues on brain dy...
An Australian team of researchers has developed a human Sanfilippo type A neural cell model and used...
Thursday, 18th Nov 21
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State of play: Development of enzyme replacement therapies f...
There are currently no approved treatment options for Sanfilippo. Several therapeutic avenues are be...
Tuesday, 9th Nov 21
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Long-term data from a Type A Enzyme Replacement Therapy tria...
Pharmaceutical company Shire, subsequently acquired by Takeda in 2019, sponsored two ERT clinical tr...
Wednesday, 27th Oct 21
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Profile a Sanfilippo Researcher: Dr. Maria Francisca Coutinh...
Meet Dr. Maria Francisca Coutinho, a researcher at the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorg...
Friday, 15th Oct 21
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State of play: Development of gene therapies for Sanfilippo
There are currently no approved treatment options for Sanfilippo. Several therapeutic avenues are be...
Thursday, 7th Oct 21
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Type B gene therapy trial releases long-term follow-up resul...
Results from a 5.5-year follow-up study have been released for a completed Sanfilippo type B gene th...
Friday, 17th Sep 21
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Lysosomal storage disorders - 1 in 5,000
Sanfilippo Syndrome belongs to a group of around 50 diseases collectively named lysosomal storage di...
Monday, 13th Sep 21
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Coming at the heparan sulfate problem from the outside
New research has found that clearing the heparan sulfate outside of cells in Sanfilippo can reduce d...
Friday, 27th Aug 21
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MPS2021 Conference Summary
MPS2021, the 16th International Symposium on mucopolysaccharidoses and related disorders, was held v...
Friday, 20th Aug 21
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Profile of a Sanfilippo Researcher: A/Prof Vito Ferro
Meet Associate Professor Vito Ferro, a chemist at The University of Queensland.
Wednesday, 18th Aug 21
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State of play: Development of substrate reduction therapies ...
There is no approved cure or therapy for Sanfilippo, but Substrate Reduction Therapy, or SRT, is one...
Friday, 13th Aug 21
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State of play: Development of chaperone therapies for Sanfil...
There are currently no approved treatment options for Sanfilippo Syndrome, but several therapeutic a...
Thursday, 5th Aug 21
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Research helps explain autism-like symptoms in Sanfilippo
Research published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications has helped reveal what causes so...
Wednesday, 21st Jul 21
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Brain signalling in early-stage Sanfilippo: new insights fro...
A study led by Professor Alexey Pshezhetsky (University of Montreal) has investigated the role of sy...
Wednesday, 14th Jul 21
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A Spotlight on Attenuated Sanfilippo
Research into attenuated forms of Sanfilippo Syndrome has been given a boost with recent funding to ...
Thursday, 8th Jul 21
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Approaching Sanfilippo from the parent’s perspective
A study initiated by Cure Sanfilippo Foundation, USA, aimed to investigate the impact of Sanfilippo ...
Monday, 21st Jun 21
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The world’s first zebrafish model of Sanfilippo: a game-ch...
Dr Jan Kaslin, from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), based at Monash Universit...
Tuesday, 15th Jun 21
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Can measuring the brain help clinical trials for Sanfilippo?
Clinical trials for Sanfilippo syndrome rely on accurate & easy to measure biomarkers.
Researchers...
Thursday, 3rd Jun 21
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Clues to lung symptoms in Sanfilippo
Researchers from Australia, Spain and the UK have studied the effect of Sanfilippo Syndrome on the l...
Tuesday, 25th May 21
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New research on Sanfilippo type B enzyme replacement therapy
Research led by Prof. Patricia Dickson, based at The Lundquist Institute and Washington University h...
Monday, 10th May 21
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New research shows high rates of hip problems in Sanfilippo ...
While there is a significant focus on neurodegenerative symptoms, it is important to recognise that ...
Thursday, 22nd Apr 21
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Research sheds light on brain health of Sanfilippo carriers
Associate Professor Kim Hemsley and her team of researchers from South Australia have published rese...
Monday, 22nd Mar 21
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Research update from the 2021 WORLDSymposium
The annual WORLDSymposium was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nevertheles...
Thursday, 4th Mar 21
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Encouraging results from ongoing gene therapy clinical trial...
Abeona Therapeutics presented encouraging results from their ongoing gene therapy clinical trial for...
Monday, 15th Feb 21
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Hopes for a new Sanfilippo type A clinical trial
Researchers at The University of North Carolina have developed a second-generation gene therapy for ...
Monday, 15th Feb 21
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Research spotlight: ERT development for Sanfilippo type D
Towards the end of 2020, American researchers published an enzyme replacement therapy proof-of-conce...
Monday, 1st Feb 21
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Speaker opportunity at virtual NORD conference
SHARE YOUR SANFILIPPO STORY INTERNATIONALLY … The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)...
Wednesday, 13th Jan 21
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First study on Sanfilippo caregiver preferences published
Our colleagues at the USA-based Cure Sanfilippo Foundation have published the first study of the pre...
Wednesday, 23rd Dec 20
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Sanfilippo retinal study findings
Is the eye a window to the brain in Sanfilippo? The findings of a National Health and Medical Resea...
Wednesday, 16th Dec 20
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Orchard Therapeutics reports early results in Sanfilippo cli...
Orchard Therapeutics has reported results from the first Sanfilippo type A patient treated in their ...
Thursday, 10th Dec 20
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Congratulations, Andrew Shoubridge!
Andrew Shoubridge, the first recipient of the Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation top-up
scholarship...
Thursday, 10th Dec 20
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3rd International Conference: Sanfilippo Syndrome & Related ...
Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation was proud to be a sponsor of the 3rd International Conference on ...
Thursday, 10th Dec 20
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World Sanfilippo Awareness Day
November 16 is World Sanfilippo Awareness Day. Now in its second year, this international day aims t...
Thursday, 12th Nov 20
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Sanfilippo clinical trial factsheets now available
The Foundation recently developed Sanfilippo clinical trial factsheets for families, which are avail...
Thursday, 8th Oct 20
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Exciting Progress For Our Community
Exciting progress for our community and a new chapter for Meg Donnell and the Sanfilippo Children’...
Tuesday, 25th Aug 20
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Introducing Dr. Jana Vukovic to our SAB
The Sanfilippo Children's Foundation is thrilled to be expanding our Scientific Advisory Board. Plea...
Wednesday, 22nd Jul 20
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Targeting the immune systems as a treatment approach for San...
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation has awarded funds to Associate Professor Kim Hemsley (Flinder...
Wednesday, 8th Jul 20
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New SAB member Assoc. Prof. Karin Borges
We're thrilled to announce another addition to our esteemed Scientific Advisory Board. Please join u...
Wednesday, 1st Jul 20
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New SAB member Assoc. Professor Sarah Spencer
We're delighted to announce a new addition to our esteemed Scientific Advisory Board. Please join us...
Wednesday, 3rd Jun 20
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Development of nanoparticle drug delivery for Sanfilippo
Dr. Maria Francisca Coutinho from Portugal’s National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA)...
Thursday, 7th May 20
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Orchard Therapeutics Update: First patient treated
Incredible news out of the UK with the announcement that the first Sanfilippo patient has been treat...
Wednesday, 29th Apr 20
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PhD Student - Flinders University: Investigating biomarkers ...
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation is proud to be providing a supplementary scholarship to Leann...
Wednesday, 22nd Apr 20
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Digital Divides: Hacking the Human Genome (2SER All Things E...
LISTEN to this powerful 2SER All Things Equal podcast entitled 'Digital Divides: Hacking the Human G...
Thursday, 19th Mar 20
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PhD Student Nazzmer Nazri
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation is proud to be providing a supplementary scholarship to Nazzm...
Monday, 9th Mar 20
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Evaluating potential drug therapies for Sanfilippo
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation and Fondation Sanfilippo Suisse have awarded funds to Dr. Ade...
Monday, 9th Mar 20
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Targeting Autophagy in Sanfilippo Syndrome
Louise O’Keefe from The University of Adelaide and the South Australian Health & Medical Research ...
Sunday, 8th Mar 20
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Investigating the effects of Sanfilippo on the lungs
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation has awarded funds to Prof. Sandra Orgeig and Dr. Emma Parkins...
Monday, 2nd Mar 20
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Rare disease in spotlight with National Strategic Action Pla...
The Hon Greg Hunt, Federal Minister for Health, has today announced $3.3 million to implement the fi...
Wednesday, 26th Feb 20
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Biotechnology company, Allievex Corporation, enters licensin...
BioMarin has licenced its enzyme replacement therapy that is in clinical trial for Sanfilippo type B...
Friday, 25th Oct 19
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Nature Journal: What to do when your grant is rejected
Our Foundation's research manager, Kristina Elvidge, is quoted in this article about the medical gra...
Friday, 25th Oct 19
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New Abeona trial for older children
The original Abeona Sanfilippo Type A gene therapy trial (ABT-001) changed its criteria at the begin...
Wednesday, 18th Sep 19
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Brain in a Dish: Adelaide's landmark study to cure child dem...
The Adelaide Advertiser: South Australian researchers will grow brain cells in a dish to fast-track ...
Monday, 26th Aug 19
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VIDEO: Channel 10 Brain in a Dish project
Channel 10 National News Broadcast about the Sanfilippo Children's Foundation's $2.5 million 'Brain ...
Monday, 26th Aug 19
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RESEARCH UPDATE: Study discovers best way to deliver gene th...
In 2016 the Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation awarded AUD$90,000 towards a project to improve deliv...
Monday, 26th Aug 19
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$2.5 million for project to tackle Sanfilippo Syndrome
The Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation is thrilled to secure AUD$2 million of Government funding and...
Saturday, 24th Aug 19
