A Word From the Wolfram Study Group

By Dr. Bess Marshall

All of the people working on the Wolfram studies at Washington University are grateful every day for the support of the Snow Foundation and all of the other groups that support our work.  The Washington University Wolfram Study group is continuing to work on analyzing the data that we have and to plan for collecting data that we still are lacking to come up with a reliable way to track progression of Wolfram Syndrome so that we will be prepared to be able to determine whether any intervention is helping.  Although we don’t yet have an intervention, we are hopeful that that day is not far off when we begin an intervention trial.  We are also accumulating as much information as we can to help provide recommendations for clinical care until that day arrives.  I am happy to provide letters to anyone with Wolfram who needs help with insurance, work, school, or disability issues, just contact me at marshall@kids.wustl.edu.

All the best to our good friends in the Wolfram community!

Dr. Marshall’s research interests have included intermediary carbohydrate metabolism, glucose transporter structure and function, and metabolic engineering to alter insulin resistance. She is currently funded by a National Institutes of Health Clinician-Investigator Development award, the Diabetes Research and Training Center, and is a scholar of the Child Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology at Washington University. Dr. Marshall’s clinical interests include all aspects of endocrinology and metabolism.