Watch a replay of the live webcast that took place on Saturday October 3, 2015
The MSA Coalition welcomes you to the 2015 MSA Patient and Family Conference webcast. This meeting occurred on Saturday October 3 (World MSA Day) in Seattle, Washington. For your convenience, you can watch replays of both the morning and afternoon sessions in the video players below. Voluntary donations are appreciated to help support our educational, advocacy, support, and research funding efforts.
Morning Session
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Afternoon Session
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Question a lot of people are pushing antibodies for alpha-synucleun does that even work. It makes sense.
The science seems to make sense and there are tests being conducted. As of yet there are no published results.
Parkinson’s protein is the same as Msa protein right? Just more aggressively?
Hi Brendan,
There is some very limited data on recently completed phase 1 safety trial of the PD01A and PD03A immunizations in MSA patients. We don’t know if the drug company (Affiris) will proceed to phase 2.
https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/specific-active-immunotherapy-sait-against-alpha-synuclein-with-affitope-pd01a-and-pd03a-results-from-the-aff009-phase-i-trial/
You may want to read this information from the MJ Fox foundation on synuclein immunization trials in Parkinson disease to understand the basic concepts and familiarize yourself with the drug companies who are now working on this line of research.
https://www.michaeljfox.org/mobile/news-detail.php?update-on-alpha-synuclein-therapies-in-clinical-trials
Yup. It makes sense. I read up pd03 etc. but looking at it doesn’t explain much about it
Hi Carol and Pam,
I know this is one conference was back in 2005 so question is has anything been done since then with that is it about 14 years. I read up on PD 03 a bunch and you’re right there’s not much there is to support it over and there are a lot of other websites that are talking about Alpha synuclean I heard it could make a huge difference.