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February 10, 2022 – The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to welcome Dr. Joachim Havla of LMU Klinikum (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) as the first neurologist from Germany to join TSF’s medical advisory board. Dr. Joachim Havla Dr. Joachim Havla is a neurologist and senior physician at the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology at the LMU […]
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January 21, 2022 – The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to welcome Pr. Jacqueline Palace and Pr. Sarosh Irani from University of Oxford University to its Medical Advisory Board Jacqueline Palace, BM (Hons) FRCP DM Jacqueline Palace is a consultant neurologist in Oxford and Professor in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University. She runs […]
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You are invited to attend TSF’s old Hollywood-themed 5th NMO Awareness Gala Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 7 PM Mandarin Oriental, Boston We’ve set an ambitious goal to raise $250,000 to fund innovative, groundbreaking NMOSD/MOG-AD research through TSF’s SPARK & Unicorn Grants. Click here to view the research we’ve been able to fund thanks to […]
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My name is Christy and I’ve been fighting this disease without knowing what I was up against since before 2008… I started calling this thing my “venom” because it reminded me of a venomous character that took over my entire being without letting go. My venom’s name is NMOSD (neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder). It relentlessly […]
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December 1, 2021 — The Sumaira Foundation is proud to announce the grant recipients of TSF’s 2021 SPARK and Unicorn grants. Congratulations to our 5 recipients who each received $25,000 to initiate their research projects! HLA Association in Pediatric MOG-AD, NMOSD, and ADEM 2021 Unicorn Grant recipient Nusrat Ahsan, MD | Children’s Hospital of Los […]
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November 22, 2021 – The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to welcome Professor Romain Marignier as the 1st international NMO specialist to join TSF’s medical advisory board. Romain Marignier, MD Pr. Romain Marignier is a neurologist (MD), professor at the Neurological Hospital of Lyon, France. His areas of expertise include neuro-inflammatory disorders of the central nervous […]
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February 16, 2021 – The Sumaira Foundation for NMO (TSF) is pleased to announce the Light the Way Forward Grant made possible by a research grant from Viela Bio. Viela Bio is establishing the Light the Way Forward Grant to fuel research aimed to improve understanding of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and positively impact […]
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November 25, 2020 — The Sumaira Foundation for NMO is pleased to present “Understanding the Canadian NMOSD Journey”, a 6-part live webinar series featuring Canadian patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and advocates in which a variety of disease-related topics will be discussed. Our premiere webinar will feature the nation’s first NMOSD patient who successfully gave birth […]
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On the evening of Sunday, 17th January 2010, my mother was putting up a fight with my brothers and I to go to bed while we were chasing each other through the house. We had school the next day; I was 12 years old at the time. At 4am the next morning, I woke up […]
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My name is AnneMarie and my journey with NMO began in 2002 when I was just 16 years old… One April morning, I woke up with a stabbing pain in my lumbar spine which was getting progressively worse. My mom rushed me to the local emergency room where they had taken x-rays and done bloodwork. […]
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