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Coming soon: HD Therapeutics Conference 2012

An oasis of hope in the desert: the annual Huntington’s Disease Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs, California, begins on 27th February. We’ll be bringing you live updates via Twitter and the web.

An exciting time

If 2011 is anything to go by, we predict that 2012 will be a big year for Huntington’s disease treatment research.

The new year has already brought exciting news of gene silencing success in primate trials and striking improvement in HD mice from injection of the ‘brain fat’ GM1.

Annual Therapeutics Conference

For the last 7 years the annual HD Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs, California, has been a significant occasion for HD drug-hunters. It’s where the most exciting and cutting-edge treatment research is announced and discussed. It’s also a gathering of the world’s top HD researchers where ideas are shared and fruitful collaborations formed and nurtured.

The Conference begins very soon – Monday 27th February, to be exact. Your intrepid HDBuzz reporters Ed Wild and Jeff Carroll are going undercover at the Conference to bring you the latest news and buzz from the meeting.

The inside scoop from HDBuzz

Each day, we’ll be tweeting live updates from 9am to 6pm Pacific Time (that’s roughly 5pm to 2am in Europe). Follow @HDBuzzFeed on Twitter now, so you don’t miss anything.

If you prefer a daily digest, check HDBuzz.net or any of the HD sites that carry HDBuzz syndicated content. Each day’s news will be gathered together into a new article each evening, with our ever-popular ‘sunset conclusions’ to put things in context.

In the coming weeks, we’ll also bring you featured stories and interviews with some top scientists from the Conference.

Get in touch!

We want to hear from you, too, so send your questions, comments and queries to [email protected] or tweet @HDBuzzFeed now or throughout the Conference.

So, get following, sign up for email updates and check the web frequently. Here’s looking forward to an inspiring Therapeutics Conference.

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Drug to treat movement symptoms of HD approved by FDA

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Youthful competitors: young brain cells oust the old

Published date: 8 August, 2023

When you lose something, an easy solution can be to just replace it. But what if the something you’ve lost are cells in the brain? Can they simply be replaced? Some researchers have been working toward this for Huntington’s disease (HD) by injecting new cells into the brains of animal models. A recent publication that ... Read more

Updates from PTC Therapeutics and uniQure on their huntingtin-lowering trials

Published date: 21 June, 2023

On 21st June, both PTC Therapeutics and uniQure shared data from their respective clinical trials, both testing huntingtin-lowering as an approach to treat HD, but with different types of therapies. In this article we go through the data they each presented, what it all means and the next steps the companies will be taking. Treating ... Read more

Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference 2023 – Day 3

Published date: 22 May, 2023

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Start here!

Published date: 22 May, 2023

Welcome to HDBuzz! This special page is for people who are new to Huntington’s disease, or new to the world of HD research. Reading the articles linked here will help you pick up the basics of what Huntington’s disease is, and get up to speed with some of the most promising things scientists are doing ... Read more