CHDI Foundation is a biomedical research foundation devoted to a single disease:\u00a0 Huntington’s disease.\u00a0 Its central aim to to rapidly develop therapeutic agents that will treat or modify the progression of Huntington’s disease.\u00a0\u00a0 It provides research support for scientists in academic institutions, supports a group of scientists within the organization, interacts with biotechnical and pharmaceutical companies to develop reagents, and provides a variety of research resources (reagents, transgenic mice, etc.) to investigators entering the field of HD research.\u00a0 Dr. Story Landis addressed the 10th annual HD Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs, CA, on February 25.\u00a0 She described the efforts at the NIH to achieve the similar goals, bringing the perspective of experience with work on a variety of disorders affecting the nervous system.\u00a0 She emphasized the value of coordination and partnership as the NIH and health advocacy organizations work together toward shared goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHDI Foundation is a biomedical research foundation devoted to a single disease:\u00a0 Huntington’s disease.\u00a0 Its central aim to to rapidly develop therapeutic agents that will treat or modify the progression of Huntington’s disease.\u00a0\u00a0 It provides research support for scientists in academic institutions, supports a group of scientists within the organization, interacts with biotechnical and pharmaceutical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-and-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storylandis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}