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Recruiting Patients

January 28, 2019

The Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SSADH) Natural History Study Group of Drs. Gibson, Pearl, DiBacco, Krischer, Roullet, Opladen and Jeltsch, are officially opening their National Institutes of Health (NIH) –…

Consider Enrollment in the iNTD

October 31, 2018

We are close to the beginning of an NIH-funded study that will carry out a 5-year Natural History of SSADH (succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency). This study will include clinical data…

Requesting Newborn Screen Dried Blood Spots

October 11, 2018

We are working on a way to easily test for SSADH from a dried bloodspot, but need some original Dried Bloodspot Cards used for Newborn Screening from SSADH patients within…

SSADH Awarded Grant for Natural History Study

April 10, 2018

I want to thank you again for your letters of support for this NIH grant application submitted by Drs. Jean-Baptiste Roullet and Mike Gibson (Washington State University) and his colleagues,…

$12,000 was awarded to Ritva Tikkanen, MD, PhD

April 10, 2018

$12,000 was awarded to Ritva Tikkanen, MD, PhD from Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany to create molecular consequences of SSADH mutations allowing for mutation specific therapies.  Dr. Tikkanen will be using…

SSADHD Backup Mice Colony

April 10, 2018

$10,000 was awarded to JEX Services to maintain a Backup Mice Colony to the current colony that exists and is in used for research at Washington State University. The backup…

$125,000 was awarded to Phillip Pearl, MD and Mustafa Sahin MD, PhD

April 10, 2018

$125,000 was awarded to Phillip Pearl, MD & Mustafa Sahin MD, PhD at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  Our award was matched by an anonymous $175,000 donation on…