We asked the FA community to help design FARF’s 30th anniversary t-shirt. You all responded with some fantastic entries. We have narrowed down the submissions to six finalists, and now the voting turns to YOU. Please look at each of...
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FA families started FA Day 10 years ago to raise funds for research & family support services. We know that longer and better lives for people with FA are possible when we all get involved. #ThisIsHowIFA reflects the many people it...
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To fast-track therapies for people with Fanconi anemia (FA), it’s often best to start by examining progress that’s already been made in the general population. Large-scale studies such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) have made it possible to detect...
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An update for FA families In the March 2019 issue of Trends in Genetics, researchers from St. Vincent’s Institute in Australia published a paper on the FA pathway and fertility. We asked the authors to provide a summary for FA families....
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The global Fanconi anemia gene therapy program is now open in the USA and Europe. In Europe, a new study, known as FANCOLEN-2, is available at CIEMAT/Hospital del Niño Jesús in Madrid, Spain. In the USA, a similar study is now...
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People with Fanconi anemia (FA) have a 500- to 700-fold increased risk of developing head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) tumors when compared to the general population. Conventional treatments available for non-FA-HNSCC such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy are...
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