Last Tuesday, some members of the ENACH Association visited us.
(From left to the right: ENACH Association members: Tony Moreno and Naza Martínez with their daugthers, Inés and María, together with Antonio López; and, representing INc-UAB: Dr. Jesús Giraldo (INc-UAB Director) Albert and Eli)
We are going to start a new research project, promoted by them, to identify changes in the gene expression of ENACH (NBIA in English) patients’ fibroblasts. NBIA are neurodegenerative diseases in which there is an accumulation of iron in the brain. The objective of the project, framed in the ENACH Synergy Platform, is to find therapeutical targets to develop new drugs for their treatment. Research will be developed using biological material from PKAN, PLAN and BPAN patients.
It was a pleasure to have them around and we are very glad to have the chance to contribute searching solutions for these diseases.