Huntington's disease
Inherited neurodegenerative disorder
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| 2025 |
Woody Guthrie
Folk musician Ellen Stekert released the archival album 'Camera Three', recorded in 1959, which included a previously unknown Guthrie song 'High Floods & Low Waters'.
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| 2025 | Scientists from Harvard and MIT discovered a breakthrough in understanding Huntington's disease progression, revealing that gene sequence repeats become toxic at 150 repeats, explaining why symptoms start earlier or later in different individuals. |
| 2024 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, a prestigious scientific honor highlighting her outstanding scientific achievements. |
| 2024 | Elected to US National Academy of Medicine, recognizing her significant contributions to medical research. |
| 2024 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
Release of science fiction film 'Space Command Redemption' featuring a character diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea
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| 2024 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
Release of Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' depicting Woody Guthrie's struggle with Huntington's disease
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| 2024 | Awarded an honorary Doctor of Science in Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town. |
| 2024 | Received 'Medicine Leader Award & Best Medicine Scientists, Ranked #13 Nationally Global Highly Ranked Scholar in Molecular Genetics #44' from ScholarGPS. |
| December 2024 | Ionis Pharmaceuticals secured FDA approval for Tryngolza (olezarsen), a treatment for familial chylomicronemia syndrome, marking its first independent drug launch in 35 years. |
| 2023 | Received the Arvid Carlsson Award from Lund University, acknowledging her notable work in neuroscience. |
| 2023 | Valbenazine (Ingrezza) was approved by the FDA for the treatment of Huntington's disease chorea. |
| 2023 | Named 'Best Scientist in Canada Award, Ranked #22' by Research.com. |
| 2023 | Recognized as one of the 100 most inspiring people in Life Sciences by PharmaVoice. |
| 2023 | Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Huntington Study Group, USA. |
| 2023 | Recognized as 'Biology and Biochemistry Leader Award, Nationally Ranked #3 Best Biology and Biochemistry Scientists in Canada' by Research.com. |
| 2022 |
Eve Babitz
The Huntington Library in California acquires Babitz's personal archive, which includes drafts, journals, photographs, and letters spanning from 1943 to 2011.
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| 2022 | Received the Huntington's Disease Society of America Outstanding Research Award for her groundbreaking work in Huntington's disease research. |
| 2022 | Honored with the Osler Medal and Lecture from the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 2022 | Awarded the MRC Millennium Medal in recognition of her significant medical research contributions. |
| 2022 | Developed the Huntington's Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) alongside colleagues, creating a novel four-stage framework for assessing disease progression from birth, similar to cancer staging systems. |
| 2022 |
Charles Sabine
Awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's New Year Honours list for philanthropic work in Huntington's disease awareness.
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| 2022 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
Charity Norman published 'Remember Me', a novel with Huntington's disease as a central plot element.
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| 2022 | Named one of PharmaVoice's '100 of the Most Inspiring People' for the third time. |
| September 30 2022 |
Woody Guthrie
Dropkick Murphys released 'This Machine Still Kills Fascists', an acoustic album using Guthrie's previously unused lyrics, curated by his daughter Nora Guthrie.
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| February 18 2022 |
Woody Guthrie
The Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan opened an exhibition titled 'Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song', running through May 22.
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| 2021 | The phase 3 trial of tominersen was halted after the safety monitoring board concluded that the risk-benefit balance was unfavourable. |
| 2021 | Became the first woman to umpire the men's Boat Race. |
| 2021 | Wrote the afterword for 'Patient 1', a book by Charlotte Raven about her Huntington's disease experiences, and was the doctor who administered the first dose of tominersen to Raven in the Gen-Peak trial. |
| 2021 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
In the Australian soap opera Neighbours, character Fay Brennan died from complications caused by Huntington's disease in episode 8573.
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| 2021 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
Charlotte Raven published the memoir 'Patient 1', describing her experience with Huntington's disease and participation in a clinical trial.
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| December 17 2021 |
Eve Babitz
Died of Huntington's disease at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 78.
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| December 17 2021 |
Eve Babitz
Passed away, concluding her influential career as an author and artist who captured the essence of Los Angeles cultural life.
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| 2020 | Reviewed the potential of antisense oligonucleotides to treat neurodegenerative diseases in Science journal. |
| 2020 | Published the Huntington's Disease Young Adult Study (HD-YAS), which studied premanifest HD gene carriers approximately 24 years from predicted onset of clinical symptoms, providing critical information on the earliest signs of neurodegeneration. |
| 2020 | A comprehensive review revealed 197 clinical trials actively investigating various therapies and biomarkers for Huntington's disease, highlighting ongoing intensive research efforts to understand and potentially treat the condition. |
| 2020 | Appeared in the Ken Burns PBS documentary 'The Gene: An Intimate History'. |
| 2020 |
Huntington's disease in popular culture
Kathy Reichs published 'A Conspiracy of Bones', which includes Huntington's disease as a plot element.
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| 2020 | Awarded the David Dubinsky Humanitarian Award from the American Friends of Soroka Medical Center (AFSMC). |
| December 29 2020 |
John Paul Jr.
John Paul Jr. passed away in Woodland Hills, California.
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| October 2020 | Promoted to professor of neurology in the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences. |
| February 2020 |
Charles Sabine
Documentary 'Dancing at the Vatican' had its European premiere at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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| 2019 |
Eve Babitz
New York Review of Books publishes 'I Used to Be Charming', a collection of previously uncollected essays by Babitz.
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| 2019 | Received the Alexander Morison Medal from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Yahr Award from the World Congress of Neurology for her contributions to neuroscience. |
| 2019 | A phase 3 trial of tominersen (previously IONIS-HTTRx), sponsored by Roche Pharmaceuticals, began. |
| 2019 | A huntingtin-lowering gene therapy trial run by Uniqure commenced. |
| 2019 | Nominated for the Hammes Faculty Teaching Award, recognizing her excellence in teaching. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Faculty Research Prize, acknowledging her significant contributions to research. |
| 2019 | Project manager Arcadis and contractor ISG Ltd began work to expand the Eastman Dental Hospital site to construct a new building for the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and a UK Dementia Research Institute hub. |
| July 2019 |
Charles Sabine
Premiered the documentary 'Dancing at the Vatican' in Hollywood, California.
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