Meet Beatrix the BDFA Easter Bunny, the newest member of the Batten Disease Family Association team. She is a digital bunny, so you can only meet her online. Beatrix is friends with Boris_the_bear and together they are raising awareness for Batten disease.…
Happy to support Mediaplanet’s Rare Diseases campaign. The campaign is distributed through The Independent newspaper on 29th February, distributed at world leading events and is published online on Health Awareness. Learn more here: http://www.healthawareness.co.uk/rare-diseases
Rare Disease Day takes place on the last day of February each year. This year its the 29th February 2016 The main objective of Rare Disease Day is to raise awareness amongst the general public and decision-makers about rare diseases…
On February 5th 2016, Tim Martin together with Ellen and Laura Bletsoe raised over £30,000 for BDFA during a Fundraising Lunch Event at the City of London Club. Tim Martin met Ellen at an event they both attended last year. …
Her Royal Highness (HRH) The Countess of Wessex put her artistic skills to the test when she joined supported children and families for some cake decorating at Christopher’s on Tuesday 9 February, as part of our Guildford-based hospice’s 15th birthday celebrations.…
The first meeting of the BATCure group took place at UCL in London on January 27-29. It was a very exciting to finally be starting on the project with over 30 scientists, research students and clinicians attending from Denmark, Germany,…
Is your New Year's resolution to get fit and have fun? And to raise money for the BDFA whilst doing it? Then sign up for the Vitality British London 10K, staged through the heart of central London passing many of…
This October our Family Conference was held at the Village Hotel in Coventry. Families, staff and professionals started arriving on the Friday, meeting up with old friends and making new ones. The AGM on Saturday morning, included a keynote speech…
We already knew she was tough, running over 150km of muddy obstacle races this year raising money for the BDFA, and now it's official. Jenny Shackleton has been chosen as one of ITV's, Good Morning Britain's 'Tough Mums'. Watch this Thursday…
Invitation to Dr Claire Russell’s Lab at Royal Veterinary College, London Friday 25th September 2015 11am-4pm Royal College Street London NW1 0TU
Recreating NCL (Batten disease) in animals allows us to understand what processes go wrong in the disease and enables the testing of new therapeutic approaches. In particular, zebrafish have unique features which make them easy to study and manipulate to help us to better understand these diseases.