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Announcing February Research Roundtable Speakers

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Dr. Mitra and Jeff Milton to Join Chelsea’s Hope Lafora Disease Research Roundtable on 8 February

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We are excited to announce the two speakers that will present at our February research roundtable.

Sharmistha Mitra, Ph.D., is an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She joined the UT Southwestern faculty in July 2020.

Dr. Mitra’s objective is to present a comparative murine study of the amylopectinoses of APBD, Lafora Disease, and PGBM1 at the roundtable. She will share a mechanistic understanding of the function of E3 ubiquitin ligases and their associated proteins in glycogen metabolism.

Jeff Milton is the Founder and CEO of La Jolla Labs, a company developing technology for RNA therapeutics. Prior to this, he was Head of Data Sciences at Arcturus Therapeutics, where he worked on several rare disease programs, including both RNA-targeting and mRNA modalities. Jeff currently serves as an advisor to his alma mater, the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

We are excited to begin the 2024 Research Roundtable series and hope you will join us for an important conversation.

Our Next Research Roundtable

Please join us Thursday, February 8th, from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST to learn from Jeff and Dr. Mitra. You must register for the Zoom meeting in advance. We will include a new translation and captions feature for the Zoom meeting. It will not be recorded, although we will share a summary after the meeting.

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June Research Roundtable Registration

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June Lafora Disease Research Roundtable image of a pink background with a pinned piece of paper. It has a logo reading: Chelsea's Hope Lafora Children Research Fund Research Roundtable Next lines of text: Thursday, 22 June 10:30 am - 12 pm EST Button text reading: Register to attend via ZoomPlease join us for our June Research Roundtable! Registration is now open.

When? It will be Thursday, June 22, 2023, from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST.

Where? The Roundtable will be virtual. You can register to attend via Zoom! 

We will be hearing from experts on clinical markers in Lafora Disease. Like the April Roundtable, there will be presentations and ideally time for discussion at the end.

Families are welcome to attend and ask questions, so we hope you will be able to join us for this event! We recommend that you refer to Science Terms 101 if you are not a researcher or clinician attending. It’s full of helpful definitions of scientific terms you might hear. You can download the PDF and print it out for your reference!

The Roundtable is only one month away, so register today!

Also, please register if you are interested but you are unsure if you can attend or not! We will email a summary of the Roundtable to everyone who registered. It will also be posted on our Research Roundtable page.

Chelsea’s Hope is excited about our June Research Roundtable. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Register for the Research Roundtable
Chelsea's Hope Lafora Children Research Fund Research Roundtable Thursday, April 27th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST. Register to attend via Zoom We'll hear from Lafora Disease and Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease researchers around a common goal: reducing glycogen aggregation in the brain.

First Lafora Disease Research Roundtable

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A square image announcement for the Lafora Disease Research Roundtable. The top half of the image reads: Chelsea's Hope Lafora Children Research Fund Research Roundtable The bottom half contains the event details: Thursday, April 27th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST. Register to attend via Zoom We'll hear from Lafora Disease and Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease researchers around a common goal: reducing glycogen aggregation in the brain. Please join us for our first Lafora Disease Research Roundtable!

When? It will be Thursday, April 27th, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST.

Where? The Roundtable will be virtual. You can register to attend via Zoom!

We’ll bring together Lafora Disease and Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease researchers around a common goal: reducing glycogen aggregation in the brain. The Research Roundtable will feature several presentations, followed by time for group discussion.

The presentations will be geared toward the science community as we work to build allies toward developing treatments for Lafora disease, but everyone is welcome. Families are welcome to attend and ask questions, so we hope you will be able to join us for this event!

It’s only one week away, so register today for the Lafora Disease Research Roundtable!

Also, please register if you are interested but you are unsure if you can attend or not! We hope to send the Zoom recording of the roundtable to everyone who signed up. However, we will not make the recording available publicly.

Chelsea’s Hope is excited for our first Research Roundtable. If successful, we plan to continue the series in the future. Please contact us before the roundtable if you have any questions.

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