Hope Happens for Neurological Disorders

How does the immune system keep tabs on the brain ? Researchers at Washington University might have found where inflammatory responses for many neuroimmunological conditions start!

This is a great, hopeful example of translational research - the type of research Hope Happens supports at the Hope Center: BioNTech's CEO, Ugur Sahin, M.D., Ph.D., has led new research showing that an mRNA vaccine might also work in multiple sclerosis (MS). https://www.fiercebiotech.com//biontech-ceo-turns-covid-19

The holidays are a wonderful time to reflect on our goals and achievements throughout the year. Hope starts with you! Consider supporting people with Neurological Disorders this holiday season by contributing to our end-of-year campaign. https://hopehappens.org/how-you-can-help/

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found a protein that may help to diagnose and track early Alzheimer's disease, offering new HOPE for the future! https://medicine.wustl.edu//novel-form-of-alzheimers-prot/

Thank you to those who donated on #GivingTuesday to Hope Happens. Your gift gives HOPE to the millions of people affected by neurological disorders. If you forgot to make a donation yesterday, it's never too late to give! Click below to fund the brilliant researchers who are making real progress in the fight against neurological disorders. https://portal.gladitood.com//make-hope-happen-for-those-w

Remembering Dr. William Danforth - Dr. Danforth was passionate about medical research. He and the trustees of the Danforth Foundation were instrumental in establishing the Danforth Challenge for Neurological Disorders at the Hope Center through a generous matching gift. We feel a great sense of sadness and our heartfelt condolences go out to the Danforth Family.

A team at the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University lead by Dr. Randell Bateman is one of several research teams that developed a blood test for Alzheimers. Such a test will make the diagnosis simpler, more affordable and widely available!

Great news from the Hope Center - Tim Miller, MD, who is one of the nation’s foremost researchers on ALS, developed an experimental drug (tofersen) for a form of genetic ALS that is now moving into a Phase 3 clinical trial. Phase 3 is designed to further evaluate the safety and efficiency of the new drug. As many of you know, Dr. Miller is the director of the Christopher Wells Hobler Laboratory for ALS Research at the Hope Center, and he received our Spirit of Hope Award in 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Miller!

Thank you to all of our supporters for making this our Give STL Day yet! Your gifts will accelerate research, inspire hope in patients, and honor those we know and love who are suffering or have suffered from a neurological disease. We couldn’t do any of this without you. If you forgot to make a donation yesterday, you can always visit us here to give a gift: https://hopehappens.org/how-you-can-help/

Hope Happens was founded on the premise of collaborationwe believe a discovery in one neurological disease is likely to lead to a discovery in another. That’s why we collaborated with the Hope Center in 2004, whose labs study a range of nervous system diseases. And today, Give STL Day, we want to collaborate with YOU to accelerate groundbreaking research and give HOPE to those suffering from the effects of a neurological disease. https://www.givestlday.org/hopehappens

#GiveSTLDay is tomorrow, but you can donate to the Hope Happens campaign early! Your gift supports the invaluable researchers at the Hope Center, who are making advancements every day in finding treatments and cures for many neurological disorders. Take Dr. Gutmann, whose lab recently found a way to decrease the size of brain tumors in mice with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Or Dr. Davis, whose lab is targeting a gene that may slow the progression of dementia in people with Parkinson’s disease. Your donation helps accelerate these and other studies to find better treatments and therapies for neurological disorders. Donate today. https://bit.ly/2W7qJPq