Chapter 2. Potential disease modifying therapies for Friedreich ataxia
This chapter of the Clinical Management Guidelines for Friedreich Ataxia and the recommendations and best practice statements contained herein were endorsed by the authors and the Friedreich Ataxia Guidelines Panel in 2022.
2.1 History of examining modifying therapies
2.2 Potential targets for therapies
2.3 Therapies under investigation
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David Lynch, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Email: lynchd@mail.med.upenn.edu
Caterina Mariotti, MD
Neurologist, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
Email: caterina.mariotti@istituto-besta.it
Massimo Pandolfo, MD
Professor (Clinical), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Email: massimo.pandolfo@mcgill.ca
Geneieve Tai, BBiomedSc(Hons)
Research Assistant, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Email: geneieve.tai@mcri.edu.au
George Wilmot, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Email: gwilmot@emory.edu
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This chapter of the Clinical Management Guidelines for Friedreich Ataxia and the recommendations and best practice statements contained herein were endorsed by the authors and the Friedreich Ataxia Guidelines Panel in 2022.
It is our expectation that going forward individual topics can be updated in real-time in response to new evidence versus a re-evaluation and update of all topics simultaneously.