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News kindly supplied by Juliette Dieusaert, President of the French association AFAF. This report is written by Ataxia UK’s Research Officer, Alison Stevenson and approved by the EFACTS Steering Committee.

Overview

July 2010 - The European Friedreich’s Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies (EFACTS) has been awarded a grant of just under six million Euros by the Seventh Framework Programme FP7 of the European Commission for research into Friedreich’s ataxia (FA).

The aim of the consortium is to promote translational research into the causes of and possible therapies for FA. Professor Massimo Pandolfo is co-ordinating the project which involves 14 partner groups from different research disciplines across Europe, five of which are from the UK. A kick-off meeting was held on 3-4 May at which the partner groups outlined their proposed projects. Ataxia UK was invited to the meeting and Sue Millman and Alison Stevenson attended. Representatives from ataxia organisations in other European countries were also present; FASI (Ireland), AFAF (France) and GoFAR (Italy).

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