| The metabolic disorder NCL (Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses) is a rare disease which is often not diagnosed by many doctors. The first sign – poor eyesight – often emerges when the children start school. The families affected sometimes have to watch helplessly as their child loses a little day for day: sight, mobility, speech, memory and finally life itself. Since this disorder is very rare with some 400 known cases in Germany, the treatment of the disease is not in any regular research programme. To counter this situation Dr. Frank Husemann set up the NCL Foundation in August 2002. |
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The Foundation advocates for research in the disorder and ensures the research results are spread among the medical profession, so that the doctors are aware of the first signs of the disorder and thus reduce wrong diagnostic findings. The influence of cells of the central nervous system on the degeneration of the retina is examined and new approaches for treatment tested. With the research of the disease and new findings, the families with sick children are not left alone with their worries and cares. Thanks to the support of the Auerbach Foundation the NCL Foundation has been able to award a scholarship to a young scientist in the laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann. |