NAF’s 2013 Membership Drive Has Begun…
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The National Ataxia Foundation’s (NAF) 2013 Annual Membership Drive has begun. NAF is a membership supported nonprofit organization established in 1957 dedicated to improving the lives of persons affected by ataxia through support, education, and research. MORE...
2013 Walk n’ Roll Video
Ataxia Research Currently Underway…
The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) is pleased to announce that 21 promising ataxia research studies are currently underway. Funded NAF scientists from around the world were awarded funding through NAF’s 5 research programs: the NAF Research Program, the NAF Post Doc Fellowship Award, the NAF Young Investigator Award, the $50,000 Young Investigator-SCA Award, and the $100,000 Pioneer SCA Translational Research Award. With support from NAF’s partners and donors, NAF has committed $1 million dollars for vital ataxia research being conducted this year.
A listing and summaries of studies being conducted in 2013 are now available on the Foundation’s web site, here...
“I am the Strength Behind Ataxia” Awards
This past year, NAF received more than 20 nominations for this year’s “I am the Strength Behind Ataxia” Award. Nominations were received throughout the United States and from other countries. We congratulate all of the nominees for the stellar work within the ataxia community. This year 3 nominees were selected. Congratulations to this year’s award recipients. Read about them here...
