NEWLY FUNDED NEW RESEARCHER GRANTS SPOTLIGHT Thanks to generous donations to STAR, the Foundation is thrilled to announce a newly funded grant to the laboratory of Dr Raymond Wang, Children's Hospital of Orange County, CA Isaure Lot is a first-year postdoctoral fellow working within the laboratory of Dr. Bruno Gasnier at the Saint-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences from Université Paris STAR is also pleased to announce a contract Cité. Her position is funded by the STAR extension with researchers at the National Foundation. Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Thank Isaure’s research interests include the inner you to the wonderful NIH team for your continued dedication and collaboration! working of live cells, especially the crosstalk between intracellular compartments such as the lysosome, which is defective in Salla disease. She is actively involved in the laboratory efforts, under the supervision of Dr. Help us continue accelerating research Christine Anne, to identify drugs that could into therapies by donating to: rescue the molecular and cellular defects https://donorbox.org/star-foundation. underlying Salla disease. She is passionate about the concrete scope Donations can be made in both US dollars or Euros. of the project, and the help it could bring to Become a monthly sustaining donor! FSASD patients and their families. Thank you! www.sallaresearch.org Page 6 of 8

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