We co-hosted a couple of webinars on DRPLA with the National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) to reach as many people as possible. We invited anyone with DRPLA, family members, caregivers and friends to join to learn more. If you were unable to attend the live sessions, you...
Speech can be affected in DRPLA and have a big impact on daily life. If you live in the UK, the following resources might be of interest. Speech Therapy Professor Anja Lowit and Ataxia UK have developed a six‑week online speech therapy course tailored for people with...
Updates from conferences in the United States Prof Melissa Barker-Haliski and Dr Joanna Korecka-Roet, together with their teams and collaborators, who presented a poster entitled “Investigational ASOs for Disease Modification and Seizure Control in DRPLA” at the...
DRPLA is diagnosed with a genetic test that checks whether a person has the specific change in their DNA that causes the condition. In DRPLA, this test looks for a section of the ATN1 gene that repeats the letters CAG many times. If someone has 48 or more CAG repeats,...
Prof Jeff Carroll has been our longstanding Scientific Advisor since CureDRPLA was founded and after seven years in the role he has resigned to pursue new opportunities. While we will miss Jeff on our team, we are grateful for the time he spent with us and for the...