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| December 01, 2006 Simon Cowell Learns of “Voices of Tomorrow” CD! American Idol's Simon Cowell meets Hayley Okines are the UK's CHILDREN OF COURAGE awards. |
November 2006: PRF gets Ad Council endorsement, PSA airing in Times Square PRF’s Public Service Announcement (PSA) is airing on the Astrovision in New York City’s Times Square for the month of November. What great timing, as Times Square attracts huge holiday shopping crowds then! More great news: the PSA has been endorsed by the Ad Council, a highly respected organization whose endorsement is considered the "seal of approval". |
| October, 2006 PRF-Funded Studies Provide Support for Drug Trial PRF Reaches $1.4 of the $2 Million Needed to Fund Trial! In July, UCLA researchers Loren Fong and Stephen Young published findings from PRF-funded studies with Progeria mice, testing a potential drug treatment for children with Progeria. The FTI drug improved some signs of the disease in the mice! These and other recent studies have paved the way for PRF to begin a clinical trial with the children. Join our Clinical Trial Campaign and help make the trial happen! |
| July 18, 2006 Famous Actor Couple Join the Fight Against Progeria The recognizable voices of Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are featured in a public service campaign launched this summer by PRF. Proud supporters since 2003, the couple lend their time and talent to help raise awareness of Progeria and highlight the need for more research of this disease. November 2006: PRF’s Public Service Announcement (PSA) is airing on the Astrovision in New York City’s Times Square for the month of November. What great timing, as Times Square attracts huge holiday shopping crowds then! More great news: the PSA has been endorsed by the Ad Council, a highly respected organization whose endorsement is considered the "seal of approval". |
| July 02, 2006 DATELINE NBC FEATURED PROGRAM ON PROGERIA We hope you tuned in to Dateline for a wonderful show dedicated to Progeria and the Seattle-based Cook family, which featured PRF’s medical director discussing the latest in science and research surrounding the disease. |
| April 27, 2006 Research Suggests Link Between Progeria and Normal Aging In April 2006, the journal Science published a study by Tom Misteli, a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, which found that cells taken from normal healthy adults over the age of 75 showed many similar defects as cells taken from children with Progeria. This research presents scientific evidence of the closest link between Progeria and normal aging to date. Click here to read the study abstract or obtain the full article. |
| April 16, 2006 PRF's Medical Director Receives Working Mother of the Year Award Looking for "gutsy go-getters whose innovative thinking, intrepid spirit and influential lives make you feel as if anything is possible," Working Mother magazine has selected Dr. Leslie Gordon, co-founder of The Progeria Research Foundation and mother of 9-year-old Sam, as one of their 2006 Working Mothers of the Year. |
| March 28, 2006 Clarification: UK Documentary features Indian Children with Progeroid Syndrome On Monday, February 13th, the UK's Channel 4 aired a documentary entitled, "Bodyshock: The 80-Year-Old Children" that follows a family in India whose five children all have a form of a progeroid syndrome that is not the classic, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) that PRF is involved with. |
| February 16, 2006 Studies Bring us One Step Closer to Clinical Trials PRF-funded, UCLA researchers have taken a Progeria-like mouse model and tested a potential drug treatment for children with Progeria. Their study released in Science Feb.16th has found that this FTI drug improves some signs of the disease. Human clinical trials of the drug are closer than ever! |
| January 01, 2006 Progeria on Good Morning America 12-year-old Seth Cook was featured on ABC's Good Morning America, giving viewers an inside look into the life of a child living with Progeria. |
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