With the new year, we’d like to send an update on our progress with CoA-Z. In September, we told you that we had decided to set aside plans for further clinical trials with CoA-Z, instead focusing our efforts on compiling the necessary data to present to the FDA in order to gain approval to make […]

At the NBIA Family Meeting in May and in our follow-up communication to CoA-Z study participants, we mentioned the possibility of our doing one or more short follow-up studies of CoA-Z to supplement our clinical trial data. After further data analysis and reflection, we have decided that our current data is strong enough to submit […]

It’s hard to believe it, but the CoA-Z clinical trial started way back in December 2019 when we had no idea how much all our lives were about to be upended by a global pandemic. Many of you have reached out since then to ask for updates and to find out when results will be […]

This article and other news can be found in the latest issue of our newsletter which can be downloaded/viewed here: February 2021. In May, BPANready turned 2 years old! It has been the fastest enrolling of our natural history studies. We broke 100 participants in last February 2020! We have also received 69 research blood […]

A recent scientific paper (linked below) reports that PLAN is associated with ceramide accumulation in a fruit fly model of this disorder. Ceramide is a type of fat (lipid) used widely in the body, especially in the membranes of cells. The authors report that accumulation of ceramide in the nervous system puts stress on an […]

This article and other news can be found in the latest issue of our newsletter which can be downloaded/viewed here: August 2018. In 2014 the Hayflick lab started a project with the University of Washington to sequence DNA for our patients who did not yet have a genetic diagnosis. These 54 subjects had symptoms similar […]

This article and other news can be found in the latest issue of our newsletter which can be downloaded/viewed here: June 2018. No one can say exactly how many people in the world have a NBIA disorder, but we can guess based on how many people have been diagnosed so far. Today, PKAN is the […]

We are excited to have BPAN families participate in this important natural history study of BPAN that will help lay the foundation for future clinical trials. The link below will take you to a landing page that explains more about how the study works and what is involved. After you look it over, click on […]

This article and other news can be found in the latest issue of our newsletter which can be downloaded/viewed here: April 2018. Back in April 2015, the very first beta-testers started participating in our online natural history study, PKANready. These early testers helped us work out the bugs and finalize the design before the full […]

Our team will now be publishing a newsletter several times a year to update you on our research studies and let you know about upcoming projects. If you would like to join the mailing list to receive the pdf by email as soon as it’s released, please let us know by sending an email to […]