The document summarizes research on progeria, a rare premature aging disease. It discusses how the Progeria Research Foundation was established in 1999 to address the lack of research, information, and treatment options. Through the foundation's efforts like establishing a patient registry and funding research, the understanding of progeria increased and a gene was identified. This led to the first-ever progeria treatment trial in 2007 testing drugs that target the abnormal protein produced in progeria cells. The research on progeria also provides insights into normal aging and age-related diseases.
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Progeria Research Foundation at Partnering for Cures
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Thank you, Jeffrey, and thank you to Steve and the Office of Rare Diseases for inviting me to be a part of this panel.
This is my son Sam Our story began 11 yrs ago when at the age of 2 years he was diagnosed with progeria.
Leslie …was to find the cause, treatment, and cure for Progeria
And this is where the heavy collaboration begins…. We asked ourselves what can we build to help people to help the children? To achieve our goals, our first steps were to identify the tools and resources essential to pushing the field forward. Researchers needed cells and tissues to conduct their research, so we created a cell and tissue bank and we send those cells and tissues to labs around the world. They needed money to conduct research, so we award research grants – 21 to date. We hold scientific meetings to bring scientists together to form collaborations. We built a medical records database that helps doctors and parents understand how to treat the children and optimize their quality of life. And perhaps most importantly, we formed a 20-scientist consortium to find the gene for Progeria.
PRF partners with Progeria families, academic institutions, and scientists to accomplish its scientific goals. We have received support from private US foundations and companies, volunteers who hold fundraisers, individuals who give donations, our volunteer board of directors, and many others. All of these logos and boxes represent just some of the people and organizations with whom we have established a relationship and that have provided support to PRF over the past 9 years. None of our work would be possible without them.
Leslie The Progeria gene finding led us to a drug treatment called FTI. This drug is extremely promising in preclinical studies. Here on the left you see a skin cell from a child without progeria. In the middle, you see a progeria skin cell. It is damaged, deformed, and will soon die. But in the last panel, we see a dramatic change in a progeria skin cell treated for just 36 hours with the FTI drug. The cell is normalized.
28 children from 16 countries are in the trial, and they come to Boston every 4 months for 2 years.
I’ve been asked to describe for you our experience at The Progeria Research Foundation with going from almost nothing, through discovery, and on to treatment, for an extremely rare disease, and in the meantime, probably discovering something new and important about aging in all of us. A key item for each step of the process has been collaboration.
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