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...
Cells from patients with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) can be made healthy again, according to findings by scientists at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Published online on March 6, 2005 in Nature Medicine...
Reporter Christine Haran provides a top-line overview of Progeria and the current research findings reported in Nature and Journal of Pediatrics. Reporter Christine Haran provides a top-line overview of Progeria and the current research findings reported in Nature and...
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