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Celebrating Rare Disease Day

March 3, 2025

Wisconsin mother creates SSADH Association after her son is diagnosed with neuro disorder. Spectrum News Wisconsin | BY Abbey Taylor  | PUBLISHED 12:59 PM ET Feb. 26, 2025 OCONOMOWOC, Wis. —…

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Dr. Lee’s Podcast on Gene Therapy for SSADH Deficiency

February 20, 2025

Dr. Henry Lee, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center joins the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (JIMD) podcast. Dr. Lee discusses the challenges of developing gene therapies for…

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SSADHD Presentation at PAME

January 15, 2025

Charity Adams (Mom to Bond), Dr. Phil Pearl and Dr. Itay Tokatly Latz spoke at the 2024 PAME (Partners Against Morality in Epilepsy) event on December 5th in Los Angeles,…

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Natural History Study Expanded to 10 Years

November 6, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the grant for the SSADH Deficiency Natural History Study was renewed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to allow collection of more data…

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SSADHD: a metabolic and genomic approach to diagnosis

August 26, 2024

Genomic sequencing offers an untargeted, data-driven approach to genetic diagnosis; however, variants of uncertain significance often hinder the diagnostic process. The discovery of rare genomic variants without previously known functional…

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Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of SSADHD

June 30, 2024

The guidelines were formed by an “SSADHD Consensus Group” including 23 participants from 19 institutions representing 11 countries from four continents. The group consisted of healthcare professionals including neurologists, metabolic…

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One Million Dollars awarded to SSADHD Gene Therapy

June 12, 2024

Drs. Lee & Rotenberg were awarded approximately one million dollars for the next three years to fund their continued work on Gene Therapy. The funding will be coming through an…

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Calling for Reform in US Newborn Screening

May 3, 2024
Newborn Screening

Alice McConnell presented at the World Orphan Drug Congress in Boston on April 25th.  We are grateful to Alice who took the opportunity to speak out about the need to…

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Gene Replacement Therapy Update

May 3, 2024

Drs. Henry H. C. Lee, Itay Tokatly Latzer, Mariarita Bertoldi, Guangping Gao, Phillip L. Pearl, Mustafa Sahin, and Alexander Rotenberg teamed up to create a paper on the status of their…

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GC Biopharma builds mRNA manufacturing plant in South Korea

January 12, 2024

The plant features a single-use manufacturing unit, reducing the risk of cross-contamination and facilitating the production of a number of products simultaneously. GC Biopharma builds mRNA manufacturing plant in South…

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