MLD Foundation

Super Bowl Alternative – MLD Registry

Are you bored waiting for the SuperBowl pre-game? Or twiddling your thumbs while waiting for the next commercial to air? If so, please take a few minutes and start to enter your data into the new MLD Patient-Powered Registry. We want to understand MLD better, accurately characterize the MLD patient, family, and caregiver journey, justify […]

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going – and directly helps families! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going and directly helps families! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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GSK Launches Phase 3 Cryopreserved Gene Therapy Clinical Trial

New Clinical Trial for MLD GSK has just launched a Phase 3 clinical trial to study the efficacy of a cryopreserved formulation of their gene therapy, i.e. freezing the modified cells before transfusion. Recruiting of pre-symptomatic late infantile and early juvenile patients will start immediately. This study still requires patients to travel to Milano, Italy

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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Minnesota at Rare Disease Week on the Hill

Last year when I read Kim Brown’s blog on her experience on the Hill for Rare Disease Week 2016, I told my husband, Trevis, that I wanted to go to Washington DC in 2017 and be an advocate for our precious son, Thomas, who left this earth to become an angel in October of 2015. 

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A Call for Rare Facts Unity & Consistency

It’s Our Opinion … I presented this poster at the NIH’s Rare Disease Day event earlier this week (2/27/17).  In short, to maximize impact and credibility, we are asking all organizations – government, advocacy, industry/pharma, academia, etc. to be consistent with their public sharing of Rare Disease facts. I realize that sometimes we must be very scientific about

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