The CATS Foundation presented a poster titled “Empowering the GM2 gangliosidosis community: Developing a single clinical toolkit for clinicians, patients and caregivers in the UK” at the WORLDSymposium in 2024. The event, held in San Diego enabled us to present along side Azafaros and our advocacy colleagues at NTSAD and NNPDF about the importance of sleep in relation to GM2 and Niemann-Pick disease.
About WORLDSymposium
WORLDSymposium™ is an annual research conference dedicated to lysosomal diseases. WORLD is an acronym that stands for We’re Organizing Research on Lysosomal Diseases. Since its inception as a small group of passionate researchers in 2002, WORLDSymposium has grown to an international research conference that attracts over 2000 participants from more than 50 countries around the globe. WORLDSymposium is designed for basic, translational and clinical researchers, patient advocacy groups, clinicians, and all others who are interested in learning more about the latest discoveries related to lysosomal diseases and the clinical investigation of these advances. Each year, WORLDSymposium presents the latest information from basic science, translational research, and clinical trials for lysosomal diseases.
Sleep disturbance is an important feature of neurological lysosomal disease: For patients and families
Highlights
The poster details the importance sleep has in the quality of life for patients and their families.
Key message
Sleep is a topic that needs to be investigated in more details in relation to the Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff community.
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Reference the publication
WORLDSymposium™ does not publish the full-text of the abstracts online; the full-text is available only from Elsevier for accepted abstracts submitted which are then published in the February 2024 special “Lysosomes Issue” of Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (MGM). The reference for the poster publication is below.
Gill, A., Linthorst, G., & Lewi, D. (2024). Sleep disturbance is an important feature of neurological lysosomal disease: For patients and families. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 141(2), 107841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgme.2023.107841
