Author: Factor-H Team

2021 Course on targeting mutant HTT therapeutically for clinicians of the movement disorder society (MDS) by Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan

In this 2021 course, Dr. Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan, VP of translational biology at CHDI Foundation, speaks to the clinicians and movement disorder residents as part of a course about Huntington’s disease organized by EHDN and MDS. The seminar focuses on our current understanding of HTT biological aspects relevant to the development of therapeutics targeting the cause […]

Latest article from our founder on mutant HTT imaging

Revealing mHTT in real-time Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding for the protein huntingtin (HTT), leading to accumulation of toxic mutant HTT (mHTT) aggregates. Development of therapies aiming to reduce mHTT is hindered by the lack of imaging methods to visualize mHTT in the living brain. Here, Bertoglio et al. developed a […]

New video of the kids program in Colombia

Our New Horizons program continues to evolve. Through a house-by-house survey we conducted in 2021, we have identified many more kids at-risk for HD living in very difficult conditions. This video clearly displays the environmental context in which many of the kids enrolled in the program since 2015 live, many of whom reside in rural […]

Día Mundial del Huntington: ciclo de conferencias desde Colombia el sábado 20 de Noviembre, 2021

Como conmemoración del día mundial de Huntington, que fue el 13 de Noviembre, miembros de la junta directiva de Factor-H, junto con la Universidad de Antioquia y nuestros colegas el Dr. Saúl Martinez Horta de Barcelona, Arnel Arroyo y Greis Erazo de Colombia, y Marina Gonzalez de Kauffman de Venezuela, daremos unas ponencias para todas […]

Diary of a Dr. from Maracaibo in Barcelona / Diario de un Dr. de Maracaibo en Barcelona (II)

Getting acquinted with Barcelona. / Conociendo y adaptándome a Barcelona. To be in Barcelona is to be in a multicultural city. After the restrictions with Covid-19, little by little the city has opened its doors to thousands of tourists who visit it every day and, therefore, I have been able to observe that the Barcelonian […]

Selective Targeting of mHTT Presents Novel Therapeutic Approach to Huntington’s Disease

Engineered zinc finger protein transcription factors show promise in Huntington’s disease research by selectively repressing mutant HTT, affirms an article published by PerkingElmer last Thursday October, 7,

Medical Assistance Program

Improving access to healthcare has been at the core of Factor-H’s mission since its inception, knowing that health systems are usually under-prepared to optimally serve the rare diseases, and the situation in which HD families live in many regions of Latin-America makes the situation even more complex. The strategic planning that Factor-H recently concluded emphasizes […]

Special Assistance Program​

Why we need a special assistance program and why we need to expand it We know many of the families we represent experience dire circumstances. We cannot help everyone all the time. Aside from our basic assistance program, we established a Special Assistance program to address particularly difficult situations. Only a few individuals so far […]

Educational Strategies for youth​

Education takes many forms. We approach the issue of educating our friends, depending on their ages, from various angles. We work with educators and psychologists to help them cope with the specter of the disease and the very difficult situations they experience at home, and because of the fact that they are all at risk […]

Programa Nuevos Horizontes​ (New Horizons). Re-structure of the Abrazos Program

Objective of the re-structuring To implement a restructuring of the existing Abrazos Program to provide equity, physical and mental health to all children and adolescents of families affected by Huntington’s Disease (HD) in Colombia and Venezuela. extends prior Abrazos Program to cover all children living in HD families, regardless of socioeconomic status; establishes age-dependent strategies, […]