PRF continues to make history, as nearly all the children enrolled in the trial have come to Children’s Hospital Boston for their 1-year visit, marking their half-way point to completion. Click here for details on how you can help. Exciting times! The Progeria...
After months of interviews with leading Wall Street Journal health reporter Amy Dockser Marcus, PRF is featured in a front page article in a recent issue of the publication. Click here to access the Wall Street Journal article online. For six months, Marcus followed...
What a thrill to have The Progeria Research Foundation’s Public Service Announcement (PSA) air on the Astrovision in New York City’s Times Square twice an hour, every hour during the month of November! And the timing is terrific, too, as Times Square attracts huge...
The recognizable voices of Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are featured in a public service campaign launched this summer by PRF. Proud supporters since 2003, the couple lend their time and talent to help. July 18, 2006: The recognizable voices of Ted Danson and Mary...
We hope you tuned in to Dateline for a wonderful show dedicated to Progeria and the Seattle-based Cook family, which featured PRF’s medical director discussing the latest in science and research surrounding the...
In April 2006, the journal Science published a study by Tom Misteli, a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, which found that cells taken from normal healthy adults over the age of 75 showed many similar defects as cells taken from children with...
Looking for “gutsy go-getters whose innovative thinking, intrepid spirit and influential lives make you feel as if anything is possible,” Working Mother magazine has selected Dr. Leslie Gordon, co-founder of The Progeria Research Foundation and...
PRF Reaches $1.4 of the $2 Million Needed to Fund Trial! In July, UCLA researchers Loren Fong and Stephen Young published findings from PRF-funded studies with Progeria mice, testing a potential drug treatment for children with Progeria. The FTI drug improved some...
PRF-funded, UCLA researchers have taken a Progeria-like mouse model and tested a potential drug treatment for children with Progeria. Their study released in Science Feb.16th has found that this FTI drug improves some signs of the disease. In September The Progeria...
Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, July 2005 * By Shao H. Yang, Julia I. Toth, Yan Hu, Salemiz Sandoval, Stephen G. Young, and Loren G. Fong, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Margarita Meta, University of California, San Francisco; Pravin Bendale and...