Families helping families around the world. United by the Perlara PBC research project that we hope, can change the lives of our children with GNAO1 G203R
I’ve taken for granted watching kiddos take their first independent steps thanks to drug repurposing.
But I forget that 99.9% of people don’t know about these success stories.
Seeing is believing 👀👇
Closer and closer to treatment for our children! We continue to move forward on the right path. Proud of everything we have achieved so far with our friends from @PerlaraPBC, together on the path of BioAcceleration. #GNAO1#G203R
Just got a data dump for the @Gnao1Action G203R drug repurposing project. We now have clinically actionable hits that validated in yeast and worms!
We ran a parent-initiated N=6 study last year with an OTC supplement with some promising results.
Combo therapy in the works..
Me he reunido con la Asociacion Nacional @Gnao1Action que tiene su sede en #Alcorcon. Una Asociacion que busca ayuda y financiación para la investigación de esta enfermedad rara. Todas las personas que puedan ayudar y colaborar, en la foto aparece el número de cuenta para colaborar. Cada ���, cuenta. Nosotros vamos a colaborar y ayudar en todo lo que esté en nuestra mano.
Want to see what a direct-to-patient biotech pipeline looks like?
22 programs funded by pioneer families, 12 in various stage of 1-to-N clinical studies, and half of hits are clinically actionable nutraceuticals.
This is how you start to do drug repurposing at scale.
Pediatric clinicians: Do you have patients with at least one childhood-onset movement disorder and any of these genes?
Become a contributor for this retrospective multicenter study with just a short data submission: https://t.co/kw2yPhv7Ba
Hoy 1 de octubre conmemoramos el día de concienciación sobre las mutaciones en el gen GNAO1.
¿Y si pasamos a la acción?
La cura está más cerca que nunca y la esperanza para tantos niños que están y que estarán. Esa es la mejor celebración que podemos hacer en este día.
#GNAO1
Hot off the presses!
The top yeast hit from the GNAO1 G203R drug repurposing screen just validated in the worm model.
We call that two-avatar authentication.
The coolest part is we’ve already run a N=5 study and this top hit has efficacy in kiddos.
More to come soon..
I’m in Europe for work meetings, culminating in the World CDG (Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation) conference in Lisbon next week.
Hosting meetups in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon.
GNAO1 yeast avatars update:
The G203R variant (left) acts as both gain-of-function and loss-of-function.
The G204A variant (right) behaves like a classic loss-of-function.
@Gnao1Action
It just takes one family and one physician to try a drug, discover novel biomarkers, share all the data, and make enormous impact.
The reality is to get started on your cure odyssey you don’t need a registry or a natural history study — or even a community for that matter.
We’re simply not making progress fast enough.
We need 100s of new medicines approved per year to even begin to make a dent in all 9,000+ rare diseases.
It feels good to commune with others in person or on social media today, but good feels won’t make medicines.
#RareDiseaseDay comes and then goes every year — we need to acknowledge that it’s not really working as a marketing strategy or a way to generate sustained commercial interest.
I believe we need a new message and cure focus:
PATIENTS ARE THE PLATFORM
https://t.co/EGu89v3GB1
Patients are the true limiting reagent in the crucible of drug development. It's time we recognize this reality, and build a care-to-cure system that rewards patients with both cures and cash. https://t.co/1Ybwzrd2Yn
Our first image-based yeast cell phenotypic screen yielded drug multipurposing hits!
As we’ve seen time and time again, the hits are unique to this gene/disease.
Data hot off the presses!
We performed a screen to assess the activation of a GPCR signaling pathway in a GNAO1/GPA1 yeast avatar with reduced pathway activity at baseline.
Hit 1 (left) versus untreated control (right)
We finally just got hits for the GNAO1 yeast drug multipurposing project with @Gnao1Action!
It’s our first image-based screen using a fluorescent reporter. The top two hits are structural analogs — always good to see.
Followup experiments underway..