Darragh Andrews is a 24-year-old para-athlete who lives in Belfast, Ireland, in the United Kingdom. Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practiced by people with a disability as a parasport....
Posted by | August 23, 2022
Edith In March of 2020, 12 months-old Edith received the diagnosis of having BBSOAS, also known as Bosch-Boonstra-Schaaf Optic Atrophy Syndrome. It is one of the rarest neurological disorders in...
Posted by | August 9, 2022
This was sent to us by Jennifer, mother of 17-month-old Edith, who was recently diagnosed with BBSOAS. Jennifer and her husband Tim also have an older daughter Alice, who is...
Posted by | July 7, 2022
The NR2F1 Foundation is the recent recipient of a $17,000 grant that will go towards researching the mechanisms of how BBSOAS works. The funding will be used for studies using...
Posted by | June 8, 2022
NR2F1 Foundation is excited to announce that we have voted in five new members to our board of directors! This will increase the number of board members from six up...
Posted by | May 9, 2022
The 2022 NR2F1 Family and Scientific Conference was held this year in Orlando, FL, on April 6 – 8. It was attended in-person and virtually by families from around the...
Posted by | April 8, 2022
The NR2F1 Foundation has joined the Rare Epilepsy Network, a collaborative effort of rare epilepsies. Because over 50% of individuals with BBSOAS are also diagnosed with epilepsy, being part of...
Posted by | November 1, 2021
The NR2F1 Foundation Global Alliance announces that the first International BBSOAS Awareness Day will be on December 7, 2021. BoschBoonstraSchaaf optic atrophy syndrome, also known as BBSOAS, is a very...