Dr. Mark Zylka
September 18, 2019

This is what ASF Funded Research can do!

A UNC Healthcare announced on September 17, 2019: The National Institutes of Health have awarded two separate grants totaling $6.1 million to Mark Zylka, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center.at the UNC School of Medicine. One of these projects […]

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May 30, 2019

Anxiety in Angelman Syndrome

Important work coming out of the ASF Clinic Network at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Did you know that anxiety concerns are reported in 40% of people with AS? Characterizing that anxiety is critically important to design […]

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May 30, 2019

Role of UBE3A in the Developing Brain

Your ASF donations hard at work at UNC and Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. This pivotal study demonstrated that UBE3A is most critical in the developing brain and plays a less vital role later on in life. This is […]

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May 30, 2019

ASF AS Clinic at UNC Chapel Hill Studies Anxiety

Anxiety in Angelman Syndrome Important work coming out of the ASF Clinic Network at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Did you know that anxiety concerns are reported in 40% of people with AS? Characterizing that anxiety is […]

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Dr. Mark Zylka
November 22, 2018

Dr. Mark Zylka recognized as a 2017 AAAS Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Zylka who has been recognized as a 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow! The AAAS fellows date back to 1874 and have included such prestigious recipients as Thomas Edison and Margaret Mead. More recently, […]

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November 22, 2018

Newborn Screening Study for Rare Disorders

World’s Largest Newborn Screening Study for Angelman, Prader-Willi, Fragile X and Dup15q Syndromes Launches Nonprofits co-fund feasibility study to test screening tool for 75,000 newborns for Angelman, Prader-Willi, Fragile X and Dup15q Syndromes AURORA, Ill., and WALNUT, Calif. (November 8, […]

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