Cystinosis Research Foundation Awards $2.15 Million in Grants in 2013, Reaches Treatment Milestone

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    Close-Up Media (USA), February 24, 2014, 3pp
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    • Abstract:
      The Cystinosis Research Foundation said that it awarded $2,153,048 in 2013 to researchers investigating better treatments and a cure for cystinosis, a rare metabolic and genetic disease that afflicts about 500 children and young adults in the United States and 2,000 worldwide. Additionally, in 2013 the federal Food and Drug Administration gave final approval to an improved cystinosis treatment originally discovered by CRF-funded researchers, the foundation noted in a release...