The cats foundation power voices dan lewi - crdn summit 2016

1. Powerful voice

2. The CATS Foundation
 Founded in 2011
 Supports families affected by Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff
 Provides equipment, respite trips and a support network
 Support and involved in the the research for a potential treatment
for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff
www.cats-foundation.org

3. What is Tay-Sachs
 Terminal illness in children
 Inability to produce a vital enzyme in the brain
 Genetic condition
 Affects 1 in 320,000 with a carrier rate of 1 in 300
 Lose the ability to walk, crawl, speak, see, and hear
 Total regression in all their skills and become 100% dependent on
their parents and carers
www.cats-foundation.org

4. Powerful voice – the start
 Amelie
 Suffers from Tay-Sachs
 Diagnosed in 2011
www.cats-foundation.org

5. Working together
 Empower patient families
 Nominated patient organisation
 Working towards a treatment for the diseases with Professor Cox
 Close to starting a trial for a potential ERT treatment
 The only patient registry in Europe for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff
 We want to make sure children have a future
www.cats-foundation.org

6. Powerful voice – the start
 Amelie
 Suffers from Tay-Sachs
 Diagnosed in 2011
www.cats-foundation.org

7. Powerful voice – the future
www.cats-foundation.org

8. Powerful voice – the future
www.cats-foundation.org

9. Powerful voice – the future
www.cats-foundation.org

10. Thank you
Email: dan@cats-foundation.org
www.cats-foundation.org