A special message from UMDF for World Mitochondrial Disease Week 2024
This coming week, September 16 – 22, 2024, marks World Mitochondrial Disease Week. For me, the week is deeply personal. This year marks twenty...
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Advocacy Update – Aug 2024: Help Shape the Legislative Landscape for the Mito Community Through Survey, UMDF Action Items
In a few weeks, we’ll join other mitochondrial disease-focused patient advocacy groups across the globe in marking World Mitochondrial Disease...
Read moreUMDF Announces Two New Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grants
On the heels of our traditional research grant funding cycle culminating at UMDF’s annual Mitochondrial Medicine conference this past June, the...
Read moreUMDF Issues Response to Congressional 21st Century Cures Act RFI
UMDF Issues Response to Congressional 21st Century Cures Act RFI DOWNLOAD this document (PDF)...
Read moreEnergize the Fight – World Mitochondrial Disease Week 2024
We’re excited to unite with other mitochondrial disease-focused patient advocacy groups across the globe to spread awareness on World...
Read moreAdvocacy Invite: FDA to Host Patient and Care Partner Perspectives on Safety Considerations for Approved Gene Therapy Treatments for Rare Diseases on Friday, September 20
As part of our commitment to raising patient voices in the regulatory process, we wanted to share an invite from the FDA’s Center for...
Read moreAn Update from UMDF Board Chair Dr. Alicia Palladino
Dear UMDF Community, For those of you who had the opportunity to join more than 700 patients, family members, clinicians, and researchers at...
Read moreAdvocacy Update – July 2024: Watch Mito Caucus Briefing, A Win with NIH Language, and more
Last week, UMDF hosted a congressional briefing with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Mitochondrial Disease Caucus, which featured speakers...
Read moreUMDF Names Award Winners for 2024
From Left to right: Fatema Shikora with Jennifer Chickering of Tisento Therapeutics, Jared Goettemoeller with Dr. Tyler...
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