{"id":8506,"date":"2017-11-23T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianglycomics.ca\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:37:45","slug":"congratulations-to-glyconet-investigator-dr-alexey-pshezhetsky-at-the-new-elisa-linton-sanfilippo-research-laboratory-at-montreals-chu-sainte-justine-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianglycomics.ca\/fr\/congratulations-to-glyconet-investigator-dr-alexey-pshezhetsky-at-the-new-elisa-linton-sanfilippo-research-laboratory-at-montreals-chu-sainte-justine-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"GlycoNet investigator Dr. Alexey Pshezhetsky to lead new Sanfilippo research laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CHUSJ.org
\n<\/em>An exceptional gift to support the CHU Sainte-Justine expertise and excellence in Sanfilippo disease research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Front row Jacynthe C\u00f4t\u00e9, Pr Alexey V. Pshezhetsky, Elisabeth Linton and Maud Cohen
Back row: Dr Fabrice Brunet, Randall Linton, Connor Linton, Jessica Linton and Dr. Jacques L. Michaud
(photo courtesy CHU Sainte-Justine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Montr\u00e9al, November 8, 2017 \u2013<\/strong> Today the CHU Sainte-Justine celebrated the extraordinary commitment of $1 million from The Sanfilippo Children\u2019s Research Foundation (SCRF) and the Linton family to support research on Sanfilippo disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. The CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation is deeply moved by the Toronto-area family\u2019s gesture of incredible generosity and solidarity. This donation will allow the creation of The Sanfilippo Children\u2019s Research Endowment Fund, which will ensure the sustainability of research on this disease. A powerful gesture all the more meaningful for Elisabeth and Randall Linton, founders of the SCRF, as it honours the memory of their youngest daughter Elisa, whose life was claimed by the disease at the age of 22, on October 31, 2016.
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Read more news coverage about this new world-class facility below<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

N<\/strong>ew state-of-the-art research lab at Ste-Justine Hospital to fight rare genetic disease in children (Source: Global)
\n<\/strong>Wed, Nov 8: A new world-class research lab investigating Sanfilippo syndrome was inaugurated at Montreal\u2019s CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital on Wednesday. As Global\u2019s Dan Spector reports, the lab was made possible thanks to a generous donation by a Foundation run by the Linton family, who has firsthand experience with the disease. Montreal has become a world-class research centre for a rare disease called Sanfilippo syndrome. It\u2019s a fatal genetic disorder affecting the brains of children. The new facility at Ste-Justine Hospital is called the Elisa Linton Sanfilippo Research Laboratory, named in honour of Elisa Linton. The laboratory was made possible because of a $1 million donation from the Lintons\u2019 foundation.
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Un don exceptionnel pour soutenir l’expertise et l’excellence du CHU Sainte-Justine dans la recherche sur la maladie de Sanfilippo (Source : CNW)
\n<\/strong>C’est aujourd’hui, au CHU Sainte-Justine, que fut c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 l’extraordinaire engagement de 1 M$ de la Sanfilippo Children’s Research Foundation (SCRF) et de la famille Linton, afin d’appuyer la recherche sur la maladie de Sanfilippo, une maladie neurod\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rative rare et incurable \u00e0 l’heure actuelle. La Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine est profond\u00e9ment touch\u00e9e par ce geste d’une grande g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 et de solidarit\u00e9 de cette famille originaire de la r\u00e9gion de Toronto. Ce geste exemplaire permettra la cr\u00e9ation du Sanfilippo Children’s Research Fund<\/em>, afin d’assurer la p\u00e9rennit\u00e9 du financement de la recherche sur cette maladie. Un don d’autant plus significatif pour Elisabeth et Randall Linton, fondateurs de la SCRF, puisqu’il honore la m\u00e9moire de leur plus jeune fille Elisa, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 emport\u00e9e par cette maladie \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 22 ans, le 31 octobre 2016.
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Une famille de Toronto donne 1 million \u00e0 Sainte-Justine pour la recherche sur une maladie rare (Source : Radio-Canada)
\n<\/strong>Elisabeth et Randall Linton ont perdu leur fille cadette Elisa le 31 octobre 2016, victime de la maladie de Sanfilippo, un trouble g\u00e9n\u00e9tique rare. Un an plus tard, malgr\u00e9 le deuil, ils continuent de financer la recherche sur cette maladie. Le couple vient m\u00eame d’accorder 1 million de dollars au CHU Sainte-Justine pour cr\u00e9er un laboratoire dont la mission sera de trouver un traitement contre cette maladie incurable, qui touche une vingtaine de jeunes Canadiens. Ce laboratoire a \u00e9t\u00e9 inaugur\u00e9 mercredi en pr\u00e9sence du plus grand sp\u00e9cialiste au pays, le professeur Alexey V. Pshezhetsky, bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al.
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De l\u2019espoir pour vaincre la maladie de Sanfilippo (Source : M\u00e9tro)
\n<\/strong>La petite Charlotte, 13 ans, est atteinte du syndrome de Sanfilippo, une maladie neurod\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rative rare et incurable. Aujourd\u2019hui, ses parents sont remplis d\u2019espoir, car un nouveau laboratoire d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 cette maladie vient de voir le jour au Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine. \u00abPeut-\u00eatre qu\u2019on ne sauvera pas notre fille, mais peut-\u00eatre qu\u2019on va trouver quelque chose qui va am\u00e9liorer sa qualit\u00e9 de vie et qu\u2019un jour, il n\u2019y aura plus d\u2019enfants atteints de Sanfilippo\u00bb, esp\u00e8re la m\u00e8re de Charlotte, Julie Larocque. C\u2019est gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un don priv\u00e9 de 1M$ que le laboratoire a pu \u00eatre mis sur pied. C\u2019est la famille Linton qui a offert le montant par le biais de leur fondation, la Sanfilippo Children\u2019s ResarchFoundation, mise sur pied quand Elisabeth et Randall ont appris que leur fille Elisa \u00e9tait atteinte de la maladie de Sanfilippo, il y a 19 ans. \u00abEn novembre dernier, nous souhaitions un dernier au revoir \u00e0 Elisa. Un an plus tard, nous sommes pass\u00e9 d\u2019une profonde tristesse \u00e0 l\u2019espoir, soutient Elisabeth Linton. Nous esp\u00e9rons que le laboratoire Elisa-Linton continuera de donner de l\u2019espoir aux familles, dont un enfant est atteint d\u2019un maladie neurod\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rative rare.\u00bb
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Ste-Justine Hospital unveils lab for disorder that acts like child Alzheimer’s – Elisabeth Linton, top right, and her husband, Randall, bottom left, will be at Ste-Justine Hospital Wednesday to inaugurate a research laboratory named after their daughter Elisa, centre. The lab will be dedicated to research on Sanfilippo syndrome, the rare childhood disease that Elisa suffered from. Also in this family portrait: her siblings Jessica, top left, and Connor. (Source : The Gazette)
\n<\/strong>Take your child home and enjoy her every day, doctors told Elisa Linton\u2019s parents. Elisa, then age 4, was born with Sanfilippo syndrome, a fatal childhood disorder that affects one in 70,000 children. Usually discovered in pre-schoolers, children with the extremely rare condition ultimately lose the ability to walk and talk and eat on their own. Few survive past their teens. Doctors told the Lintons there was nothing more they could do. \u201cThere is no cure and no treatment. We wanted to do something. We couldn\u2019t just sit back and take \u2018no\u2019 for an answer,\u201d Elisabeth Linton recalled from her home in Toronto. Grants for research for rare, genetic disorders are difficult to come by. \u201cAnd there was no research done because there was no money for research.\u201d Within a year of Elisa\u2019s diagnosis, Linton and her husband, Randall, created the Sanfilippo Children\u2019s Research Foundation to find a cure. Started 19 years ago in their home basement, the foundation has raised more than $7.5 million and funded 35 research projects in six countries. To make sure such research continues, the foundation is donating $1 million to start the Sanfilippo endowment fund at Ste-Justine Hospital. On Wednesday, Linton and her husband will be in Montreal to inaugurate the Elisa Linton Sanfilippo research laboratory, a centre entirely dedicated to Sanfilippo research. It will be led by Dr. Alexey Pshezhetsky, the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al research professor whose lab discovered a gene mutation for Sanfilippo and similar diseases.
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From CHUSJ.org An exceptional gift to support the CHU Sainte-Justine expertise and excellence in Sanfilippo disease research Montr\u00e9al, November 8, 2017 \u2013 Today the CHU Sainte-Justine celebrated the extraordinary commitment of $1 million from The Sanfilippo Children\u2019s Research Foundation (SCRF) and the Linton family to support research on Sanfilippo disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease for which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","wpbf-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t