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100s of PANS Families Create Change, 3 New Nonprofits & 80% to Our Research Funding Goal
100s of PANS Families Create Change, 3 New Nonprofits & 80% to Our Research Funding Goal
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New Immunological Mechanisms of PANDAS and Sydenham’s chorea Revealed
Principal investigator Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D., Chair of the PANDAS Network Scientific Advisory Board and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ugur Akcan PhD, and Charlotte Wayne have worked to understand how streptococcal bacteria underlie the acute encephalitic onset in children with PANDAS and Sydenham's chorea. Below is a pre-recorded interview of Dr. Akcan explaining the ...
PANDAS Neurologic Stem Cell Research, iPSC Modeling
Understanding the Role of Genetic Risk Factors for PANDAS UsingHuman Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cells and Disease Modeling A PANDAS Network $50,000 grant to the Irene Munk Pedersen Laboratory,Scintillon Research Institute (San Diego, CA) received a grant to conduct a pilot study examining the direct effects of illness on the brains of children ...
PANS IVIG Study: Gene Expression Changes in Immune Cells After Treatment
A recent discovery partly funded by a $50K grant from PANDAS Network has uncovered something exciting: in kids with PANS, a large group of genes in their white blood cells are out of whack—but they bounce back after IVIg treatment. These genes were found to fall into three main categories: Immune ...
