Lung problems cause sickness and death in many patients with ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). However, a lack of information from following A-T patients’ lung disease over time has limited doctors’ knowledge of these critical problems. With the goal of providing expert advice on the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of lung disease in A-T, Dr. Sharon McGrath- Morrow … Read More
Since the late 1990s, Paul K.Y. Wong, PhD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been exploring what goes wrong in blood and brain cells when the A-T protein is missing. Although A-T is not the primary research focus for Dr. Wong, a leading investigator in the area of mouse retroviruses as … Read More
Over the last few years, the Children’s Neurobiological Solutions (CNS) Foundation and the A-T Children’s Project (A-TCP) began to realize that a critical gap existed in the path to bringing potential therapies to the clinic for children with neurological di sorders. An organized network of multidisciplinary, well-funded clinicians experienced in performing clinical trials for rare, … Read More