exciting news about research...please read

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- " " Research Down Syndrome (RDS) has announced funding for six grants to support Down syndrome cognitive research.  This field of research has seen tremendous progress in recent years, including the September 2011 announcement by Roche of a human clinical trial to investigate the safety and tolerability of a molecule designed to address the cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with Down syndrome.

Research Down Syndrome, among the leading sources of private funding for Down syndrome related cognitive research,  prioritizes funding towards programs with a high probability of readily contributing to the development of safe and effective therapies.  Continued private donations are needed to support the constantly expanding research efforts that will lead to potential medical treatments. The 2011/2012 RDS Research Grants include:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/research-down-syndrome-announces-20112012-grant-awards-132634923.html

(please consider supporting this research by donating, spreading the word in the community that there IS a lot of exciting research going on right now, etc...we can all help with this...it is not hard, and doesn't take a lot of time;-) The people at Research Down Syndrome are doing the hard work of collecting the money and gathering info on all of the studies that are being done right now so that they can funnel the money they collect to the most promising studies..even $5 helps..it is looking more and more likely that a treatment for Down syndrome will be found in the next few years...but that research takes money. We have 586 people on this listserv..if each person donated just $5, that would be almost $3000 more that RDS, DSRTF or Plus 15 would have to use to fund grants..please consider it.

Research Down Syndrome

http://www.researchds.org/    click on 'support' on the right top cornerDown Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation: http://www.dsrtf.org/

another great organization is Plus 15 http://www.dsrtf.org/plus15If we want to see research progress, we all need to help, imo..we can't depend on the government or other people to do it all..I can't afford to give a lot, but I can afford to give something....and if  other people give what they can afford to give, it will all add up..

Kathy