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Washington University NF Center Trainee Presents Research at CTF Conference
Hugh Bender, MS, a graduate student in the laboratory of David H. Gutmann, MD PhD, is investigating how neural stem...
2014 Washington University NF Center Research Symposium Tremendous Success
The second Washington University NF Center Research Symposium, held on Friday, May 16, 2014, was a tremendous success with over...
Washington University NF Center Researchers Examine Methods to Engage Individuals with NF1 Worldwide for Research
The Internet provides new opportunities to recruit people with rare medical conditions to online patient registries for research. However, there...
NF symposium to focus on tumor disorders
The following article originally appeared in the Record on April 24, 2014 and was written by Michael C. Purdy A...
Painful Skin Tumors in Adults with NF1
Monique Kumar, MD, and colleagues recently reported on the occurrence of a painful skin tumor, called a glomus tumor, in...
Washington University NF Center Trainee Presents Research Findings at National Meeting
Graduate student, Anne C. Solga, MS, has been completing exciting new work on the role of the tumor microenvironment in...
New Study Uses the Fruit-Fly to Understand NF2 Gene Function
Investigators at the University of Chicago employed the common house fly (Drosophila) as a model system for determining how genetic...
Washington University NF Center Researchers Define Measures for Evaluating Low Tone Muscle in Children with NF1
Nearly half of all children with NF1 have low tone (hypotonia). A recent study at the Washington University NF Center...
Researchers Define Outcome Measures for NF1-Associated Optic Pathway Glioma Clinical Trials
The Response Evaluation in Neurofibromatosis and Schwannomatosis (REiNS) International Collaboration was formed to standardize the way clinical investigators determine the...
Gender Influences Symptoms of NF1
The following article originally appeared in the Record on February 6, 2014 and was written by Michael C. Purdy A...