Research Highlights
The following highlights are listed in chronological order, beginning with the most recent.
April, 2012: Brief Report: Patients With Fanconi Anemia and AML Have Different Cytogenetic Clones Than De Novo Cases of AML, by long-time FA researcher Blanche P. Alter, MD, MPH, FAAP and others.
March, 2012: Alan D. D’Andrea, MD, Receives the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award. View Dr. D’Andrea’s Clowes Acceptance Speech.
February, 2012: Oral Cancer Biomarker Study, David Wong, DMD, DMSc, Principal Investigator
February, 2012: New FDA-regulated Gene Therapy Clinical Trial for Patients with Fanconi Anemia
February, 2012: Profile of Stephen Friend, who spoke to the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund’s Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board at the 2012 Annual Planning Meeting.
November, 2011: Formaldehyde catabolism is essential in cells deficient for the Fanconi anemia DNA-repair pathway
This article, by FARF-funded researchers, Ivan Rosado and KJ Patel, suggests that human cells produce enough formaldehyde which would kill them if you could not either breakdown this reactive chemical or fix the damaged DNA that it causes by using the Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway. This might explain why people with FA experience the gradual reduction of germ and blood stem cells.
October, 2011: The Role of Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Genes in Zebrafish Sex Determination
The pilot study informing this research was funded by the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, Inc.
September, 2011: Postoperative Clinical Radiosensitivity in Patients With Fanconi Anemia and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
This article is featured on the FARF website with permission from David Kutler, MD
Summer, 2011: The Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation’s Insider newsletter reports that two FA researchers, Kim-Hien T. Dao, DO, PhD and Parinda Mehta, MD have received research grants (see page 6).
October, 2010: An Overview of the 22nd Annual Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Scientific Symposium
July, 2010: National Institutes of Health Grant Expands 15-Year Effort Initiated by Fanconi Anemia Research Fund
April, 2010: Researchers Discover a 14th Gene Linked to FA
