📣📣SAVE THE DATE!! 📝📝 The location and dates for the 2024 SETBP1 Family & Research Conference have been set! The in-person international gathering will be October 11th-13th, 2024 in Austin, TX USA! Can’t wait to see our SETBP1 families and researchers gather together again under one roof to connect, share and learn! Learn more: bit.ly/setbp1-conference
SETBP1 Society is pleased to share the funding opportunity offered by the 2023 Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant Program sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Orphan Disease Center! They are NOW ACCEPTING LETTERS of INTEREST to apply for one $88,740 SETBP1 Haploinsufficiency Disorder research grant. These funds were made possible by the amazing fundraising efforts […]
SETBP1 Society plans to work with our SETBP1 medical specialists to establish the first ever SETBP1 Multidisciplinary Clinic. The clinic will provide SETBP1 families coordinated care services to develop cohesive treatment plans. This GivingTuesday, we need to raise $25,000 to help establish this clinic. Check out our progress so far!
It has been just over a week since our Simons Searchlight Family & Research Conference for SETBP1 families came to an end. This was our first ever in-person conference for SETBP1 families, our first ever in-person conference for SETBP1 researchers and our first ever in-person gathering of SETBP1 families and researchers together!! It is hard […]
SETBP1 Society is pleased to share the funding opportunity offered by the 2021 Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant Program sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Orphan Disease Center! They are NOW ACCEPTING LETTERS of INTEREST to apply for one $91,466 SETBP1 Disorder research grant or one of two $45,733 SETBP1 Disorder research grants. The purpose […]
Maggie Wong, PhD, is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands working in Prof Simon Fisher’s lab. She develops induced pluripotent stem cells from patients, controls (same sex relatives) and CRISPR-generated lines in order to study SETBP1 disorder. Here about her mini-brain research and her excitement about the move to open […]
Lilit Antonyan, MSc is a research student at the Douglas Research Centre at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She works in Dr Carl Ernst’s Lab working on SETBP1 disorder. Here about her exciting research and her connection to our SETBP1 community! MEET LILIT ANTONYAN
The first publication dedicated to delving into the speech and language characteristics of those with SETBP1 disorder (SETBP1 haploinsufficiency disorder) just published in the European Journal of Human Genetics. This is the 2nd SETBP1 disorder paper to post within the past week! Dr Angela Morgan from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute who has worked closely […]
Dr Sid is our SETBP1 Clinician we are highlighting in our new series called Meet the SETBP1 Team! In this series, we share interviews and stories from our SETBP1 families, SETBP1 clinicians, SETBP1 Board members, and SETBP1 researchers. Dr Sid joined our SETBP1 community the same year SETBP1 Society formed. He is a pediatric neurologist […]
Next up in our Meet the SETBP1 Team series is Dr Carl Ernst! Carl Ernst, PhD is a researcher at the Douglas Research Centre, professor at McGill University and Canada research chair in psychiatric genetics in Montreal, Canada. His lab’s expertise is in stem cell modelling of neurological disease and genetic engineering. He has a […]
