by ARSACS | Feb 26, 2021 | News Archives
A virtual meeting of the Foundation’s Board of Directors will be held on Thursday March 18, 2021.
by ARSACS | Jan 20, 2021 | News Archives
See Invitation for the Zoom link to the virtual free conference “Abnormal muscle co-contraction in the lower limbs: a factor limiting the mobility of patients with Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)” on Thursday, January 21 at...
by ARSACS | Mar 17, 2020 | News Archives
The Diner des Producteurs, annual fundraising event for ARSACS research, will be held in Montreal on Thursday, November 5, 2020. Reserve the date.
by ARSACS | Dec 18, 2019 | News Archives
A great success ! $1.4 million net raised for research for Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay at the 13th edition of the Diner des Producteurs . 357 guests attended the annual fundraising event held in Montreal on November 7, 2019. “On behalf of the persons affected...
by ARSACS | Nov 29, 2019 | News Archives
Now you have the option of doing your ARSACS donation on line. An easy, simple and secure way to support the ARSACS research. Help us finding a treatment, Donate.
by ARSACS | Nov 26, 2019 | News Archives
“Is SARM1 a therapeutic target for ARSACS?” another research project funded by the Foundation this year. Dr. Thomas Schwarz is at the Dept of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School in Boston.
by ARSACS | Oct 3, 2019 | News Archives
The Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay Foundation is pleased to announce that it will finance Dr. Walid Houry ‘s ARSACS research project “Towards the Structural Determination of Sascsin” for a 2 year period. Dr. Houry is from the University of...
by ARSACS | Sep 30, 2019 | News Archives
On the occasion of World Ataxia Day on September 25, the ARSACS Organizzatione Di VoLontariato (ARSACS ODV) launched a fundraising campaign in Europe to help finance ARSACS research projects. The organisation of volunteers, created in December 2018 in...
by ARSACS | Sep 7, 2019 | News Archives
The Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay Foundation has received several innovative research proposals again this year. The Foundation would like to thank the applicants for their interest in the Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay and for the high quality of their submissions. 8 major...
by ARSACS | Aug 15, 2019 | News Archives
Both ARSACS transgenic mouse models, the Sacs Knock Out mouse (# 033221) and the Sacs Knock In R272C mouse (# 033385), are now available for sell on the Jackson Laboratory website www.jax.org. Thanks to the financial support of the Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay...
by ARSACS | Aug 13, 2019 | News Archives
Over the years, a greater collaboration has developed among ARSACS researchers. See a representation of the network of collaboration produced by Mathieu Blais.
by ARSACS | Aug 7, 2019 | News Archives
As part of its going research program, the Foundation is pleased to announce that it will fund 12 research projects in 2019-2020. Details to come .
by ARSACS | Jul 5, 2019 | News Archives
The Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay Foundation cordially invites you to its annual fundraising Le Diner des Producteurs (13th edition) under the honorary presidency of Mr. Jacques Foisy, Chairman of the Board and Managing Partner, Novacap. Invitation.
by ARSACS | Jun 25, 2019 | News Archives
On June 11th, thanks to Manon Valiquette, Sonia Gobeil representing the Foundation had the pleasure of visiting the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRCI) in Montreal and discovering extraordinary people who are very passionate about their work. Their...
by ARSACS | Jun 14, 2019 | News Archives
The acronym “ARSACS” enters the life of Susanna de Luca and Paolo Arrigoni when their young child was diagnosed with ARSACS. Paolo joined the Board of Directors of the Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay Foundation in 2018 and, after having participated in the...
by ARSACS | Jun 11, 2019 | News Archives, Past Conferences
Dr. Brais will be presenting “New insights on ARSACS lead to a search for candidate compounds” at the 6th International Meeting on Spastic Paraparesis and Ataxia on September 20-21 2019 in Nice, France. The program includes plenary talks from leaders in...
by ARSACS | May 8, 2019 | News Archives
If you are interested in doing research on ARSACS, please send us your proposal by Friday May 24,2019. A maximum of $100,000 for a period of one year with possibility of renewal for a second yearApplication and Appendix
by ARSACS | Apr 29, 2019 | News Archives
On April 25th in Quebec City, Sonia Gobeil had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Esther Becker (Oxford University) and attending her conference on the cerebellum entitled “New Insights into Cerebellar Disorders”. Summary.
by ARSACS | Apr 24, 2019 | News Archives, Past Conferences
Dr. Cynthia Gagnon will be presenting on the Natural History, Biomarkers and Endpoints for ARSACS at the November 2019 International Ataxia Research Conference in Washington, DC
by ARSACS | Apr 18, 2019 | News Archives
“Speech treatment improves dysarthria in multisystemic ataxia: a raterblinded, controlled pilot-study in ARSACS” research study done by Dr. Synofzik and his research team to be published in the Journal of Neurology. To learn more about the study, interested readers...
