Entries by The Snow Foundation

Move Forward and Keep Fighting the Fight

Barclay and I are moving forward! As parents you want to do everything possible to provide the best life for your children. Easier said than done when one of them has a life threatening disease.  If you pray hard enough for the strength to just move forward, somehow, the good Lord will provide! This past […]

Don’t Ask Why

Last Friday, I had an unbelievable discussion with the owner of a company that has offered their help to The Snow Foundation to expand our wings. At the end of the meeting, I remember walking out of his office completely perplexed.  I felt like I had just had a discussion with God, my mom, my […]

A Mom on a Mission

Today I was riding my exercise bike and reading “The Cure” which is about a desperate father, John Crowley, who loved his children and had committed his life to finding a cure for Pompe Disease. I read an excerpt towards the end of the book where John, an Ivy League graduate, had been able to […]

You’ve Got To Have Hope

Last Saturday was my 7-year old son Jack’s first football game. The whole family went, including my brother J.T.’s 16-yr old son Shane who was visiting from San Francisco. We were all excited to go and watch these miniature NFL athletes. Raquel said to me, “mom why do I have to go, I can’t even […]

Enhancing the Utility of Adeno-Associated Virus Gene Transfer through Inducible Tissue-Specific Expression

Wolfram syndrome is a rare genetic spectrum disorder characterized by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy, and progressive neurodegeneration, and ranges from mild to severe clinical symptoms. There is currently no treatment to delay, halt, or reverse the progression of Wolfram syndrome, raising the urgency for innovative therapeutics for this disease. Here, we summarize our vision for developing novel treatment strategies and achieving a cure for Wolfram-syndrome-spectrum disorder.

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The article I read over and over

I have read many articles related to Wolfram syndrome. The most-read article is entitled “Neurodegeneration and diabetes: UK nationwide study of Wolfram (DIDMOAD) syndrome” describing the natural history of Wolfram syndrome. This article was written by Timothy Barrett, MB, BS (MD), PhD in 1995.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7490992 I read this paper over and over when I started working on Wolfram syndrome […]

The therapeutic potential of chemical chaperones in protein folding diseases

Wolfram syndrome is a rare genetic spectrum disorder characterized by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy, and progressive neurodegeneration, and ranges from mild to severe clinical symptoms. There is currently no treatment to delay, halt, or reverse the progression of Wolfram syndrome, raising the urgency for innovative therapeutics for this disease. Here, we summarize our vision for developing novel treatment strategies and achieving a cure for Wolfram-syndrome-spectrum disorder.

Wolfram Syndrome iPS Cells: The First Human Cell Model of Endoplasmic Reticulum Disease

Wolfram syndrome is a rare genetic spectrum disorder characterized by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy, and progressive neurodegeneration, and ranges from mild to severe clinical symptoms. There is currently no treatment to delay, halt, or reverse the progression of Wolfram syndrome, raising the urgency for innovative therapeutics for this disease. Here, we summarize our vision for developing novel treatment strategies and achieving a cure for Wolfram-syndrome-spectrum disorder.

β-Cell Dysfunction Due to Increased ER Stress in a Stem Cell Model of Wolfram Syndrome

Wolfram syndrome is a rare genetic spectrum disorder characterized by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy, and progressive neurodegeneration, and ranges from mild to severe clinical symptoms. There is currently no treatment to delay, halt, or reverse the progression of Wolfram syndrome, raising the urgency for innovative therapeutics for this disease. Here, we summarize our vision for developing novel treatment strategies and achieving a cure for Wolfram-syndrome-spectrum disorder.

Not Your Typical Holiday

I love holidays.  All of them.  I even love those special days we’ve created, “Sweetest Day”, “Grandparents Day”, “Take Your Child To Work Day”.  But who knew I’d be so involved in something called “World Rare Disease Day” on February 28th.  Not exactly something that was on my radar a couple years ago.   But, here […]