cureCADASIL held a half-day Patient-Investigator Meeting June 24 at the United Leukodystrophy Foundation (ULF) Scientific Symposium and Family Conference in Itasca, Illinois. 

Below is the Patient-Investigator Meeting Program as well as a link to hear the recordings from the day.

Time Topic Speaker
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and why we are here Bertram Kasiske, MD
President, cureCADASIL
9:10 – 9:35 “The Need for Patient Engagement in the Landscape of
Potential Therapeutics”
Jane Gunther, PhD, DABT
Science Officer, cureCADASIL
9:35 – 10:00 “Pathways for the Identification of Potential Therapeutic Targets
for the Treatment of CADASIL”
Stephen Fitzsimons, PhD
Elahi Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
10:00 – 10:25 “The CADASIL Consortium: A Multicentered Natural History Study” Jane Paulsen, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison
10:25 – 10:50 “Unraveling CADASIL: the NIH Patient-Centered CADASIL
Program to Understand the Mechanism and Clinical Phenotypes”
Manfred Boehm, MD
National Heart and Lung Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
10:50 – 11:15 “Notch3 Signaling and Aggregation as Targets for the Treatment of CADASIL and Other NOTCH3-Associated Small-Vessel Diseases” Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion with Questions and Comments from the Audience Speakers and Audience

To look back at the event, see the website here.

Upper Left: The panelists answering questions during the panel discussion at the Patient-Investigator Meeting. Upper Middle: Jane Gunther, Fanny Elahi, and Bertram Kasiske attending the United Leukodystrophy Foundation Scientific Symposium. Upper Right: United Leukodystrophy Foundation dinner event. Lower Left: Dr. Arboleda-Velasquez presenting at the Patient-Investigator Meeting. Lower Middle: Dr. Manfred Boehm presenting at the Patient-Investigator Meeting. Lower Right: Dr. Jane Paulsen presenting at the Patient-Investigator Meeting.