Meet Jeffrey Cohen, new interim executive director of the National Fragile X Foundation. Cohen, who succeeds Robby Miller, has a long association with the Foundation. He joined the NFXF Board of Directors in 1996 and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ted Coutilish (734) 320-7981 tcoutilish@fragilex.org www.fragilex.org (Walnut Creek, CA, October 12, 2013) The National Fragile X Foundation Board of Directors has named Jeffrey Cohen as interim executive director. “We are fortunate Jeff [...]
Dr. Jörg Richstein, Chairman of the Fragile X support group in Germany, stopped by our office to say hello just a few weeks ago! Today, we recognize our friends and partners [...]
Neuren Pharmaceuticals (NEU) has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct a Phase 2 clinical trial of a drug to treat patients with Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the company recently announced. [...]
There is something to be said about unique thinking, especially when fundraising can be so challenging. Creating a signature event in your community takes time, patience and creativity. Thankfully, our group leaders have all of those qualities, including the Fragile X Resource Center of Missouri who just held their 8th Annual Mouse Races. Yes, you read that correctly: mouse races!
The National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF) and the are pleased to share the new online Clinic Visit Evaluation with those who have visited one of the clinics in the consortium. The evaluation [...]
A recent study by Brenda Finucane of the Geisinger Health System and her colleagues reveals that many educators and therapists still know little about Fragile X syndrome (FXS). Brenda Finucane is an NFXF Scientific & [...]
The Team discusses plans for the future. As the NFXF grows, the foundation’s team members have become spread out coast-to-coast, California to Massachusetts. So we love it when once a year we have [...]
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/spanish/fxs/index.html Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) ha traducido en español su página web sobre el Síndrome X Frágil. El sitio es igual [...]
Photo by Matt Wade. Courtesy of CC-BY-SA-3.0 Earlier this week, Vice President Joseph Biden announced a new rule that represents a historic advance for individuals with disabilities. By strengthening longstanding regulations under Section [...]
Summer may be a time of R&R in the rest of the world, but our devoted Fragile X fundraisers always seem to use the warm months to heat up their engines and put their creative [...]
The gene and protein responsible for causing Fragile X syndrome emerges as a leading candidate in the search for the cause of autism and maybe even schizophrenia.
New SAGE Therapeutics chief executive Jeffrey Jonas will oversee the company’s drug development program for Fragile X syndrome, which last month received a grant worth up to $10 million from the National Institutes of Health.
Awareness Begins…and just keeps on spreading and spreading…with YOU! Preparing for National Fragile X Awareness Month in July, we are reminded again of how awareness happens. One person, one fundraising lemonade stand, one parent’s chat [...]
Photo by Kate Tee harr. Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons. The start of the school year is just around the corner—hold on now, breathe deeply, it's going to be OK! One of the [...]
