Fundación Síndrome de Dravet opens laboratory to promote research into condition
October 2024The below Member Comment article is an automated translation of a news story shared with EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe by our member organisation, the Fundación Síndrome de Dravet. |
14 October 14 2024, Madrid – The Dravet Syndrome Foundation in Spain is celebrating after announcing that the organisation has been able to open its own scientific research laboratory to collaborate in the search for a cure for this rare disease, which causes uncontrolled epileptic seizures and moderate to severe intellectual disability in the vast majority of patients, among other comorbidities.
The facilities are located in the Science Park of the Miguel Hernández University in Elche (Alicante). The entity will thus have a team of researchers working exclusively on Dravet syndrome research with the aim of increasing knowledge of this rare disease and continuing to make new open access tools available to the international scientific community to facilitate research. The ultimate purpose is to advance towards more effective treatments and, ultimately, to find a cure for Dravet syndrome.
This is a historic step for the Dravet Syndrome Foundation, which becomes virtually the first rare disease patient organisation to lead its own research laboratory. The opening of the laboratory has been made possible as a result of individual and corporate donations made to the Foundation, coupled with product sales in its online store and proceeds from various charity and sporting events throughout the world.