The Foundation organizes a course to give visibility to a rare disease, Korea-Huntington’s.

It is a disease that produces abrupt and uncontrollable movements that make the life of patients very uncomfortable and as it is very unknown, they usually do not have the necessary social support.

Although it is a genetic disease, it worsens like all neurodegenerative diseases during aging and causes premature death of the patient.

The course was given by Dr. Minichiello, an Italian neuroscientist from Oxford University, with more than 30 years of research in this area and for the last 15 years she has been trying to explain the biochemical bases that cause the death of a specific group of neurons that control our coordinated movements.

On the other hand, another speaker was Dr. Garcia de Yébenes, winner of the Rei Jaume I Prize for Clinical Medicine in 2000 and one of the most prestigious Spanish neurologists, as well as one of the specialists in Korea-Huntington’s, who explained the chemistry and some treatments to improve the lives of these patients because at the moment, there is no way to prevent or cure this disease.

In the words of the course coordinator, Dr López Ruiz of Cardenal Herrera University, “the purpose of this conference is twofold. Firstly, we want to make health professionals and society in general aware of the need to know more about this rare disease. López thanked the president of the Rei Jaume I Prizes Foundation, Javier Quesada, for his constant support for the medical conferences “despite not being an expert in the field”.

And Dr Bataller, coordinator of the University of Valencia (UV), expressed his satisfaction at being able to teach students “the importance of basic research in the development of better treatments to prevent and combat these diseases”.

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