Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Children’s Cancer Clinic Opens in Reno Led By Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist Dr. Caroline Hastings (Addi and Cassi’s doctor!)

October 5, 2012 by  
Filed under Featured Stories, News

Many people do not know that Addi and Cassi’s primary doctor is not a geneticist, metabolic specialist, neurologist, or cholesterol expert but is one of the nation’s leading pediatric cancer doctors.  Her name is Dr. Caroline Hastings and she is the medical director for the Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant unit at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland […]

FDA Filing Made Requesting Use of Medtronic SynchroMed Pump To Deliver Cyclodextrin To Brain

April 13, 2011 by  
Filed under Featured Stories

To say I am pumped up  today is an understatement!  We’ve reached another historic milestone in our effort to treat Addi and Cassi with cyclodextrin!  Dr. Caroline Hastings at Children’s Hospital Research Center Oakland filed a 400+ page document with the FDA yesterday on behalf of the twins seeking a permanent solution to deliver hydroxyl-propyl-beta-cyclodextrin […]

IND Application Filed With FDA To Bring Cyclodextrin Into The Brain To Treat Fatal Childhood Cholesterol Disease

July 17, 2010 by  
Filed under Cyclodextrin

After months and months of work and input by doctors and researchers, Dr. Caroline Hastings at Children’s Hospital Research Center Oakland filed our second Investigational New Drug application (IND) with the FDA on July 14, 2010. The 200+ page IND filing details our request to deliver hydroxy-propel-beta-cyclodextrin (HPBCD or CYCLO) directly into Addi and Cassi’s […]

FDAs Orphan Drug Workshop Featured in Wall Street Journal – Push To Cure Rare Diseases

March 10, 2010 by  
Filed under Featured Stories

Below is a story that ran in today’s Wall Street Journal (Page A 3) on the FDA workshop I attended a few week ago at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, CA.  We filed an orphan drug application for Cyclodextrin for the treatment of Niemann Pick Type C disease, an ultra rare cholesterol disease that […]