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"A Goal For Life"

The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation Newsletter

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We invite you to read our newsletter, "A Goal For Life", which provides quick and easy access to information about what's new at Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, research updates, fundraising stories and features about NP-C patients and families.

To the left, you can view videos that include messages from Cindy Parseghian and an interview with Ara Parseghian.

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Winter 2011 Newsletter

“Gratitude makes sense of our past,
Brings peace for today, and Creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Dear Friends,
In this season of Thanksgiving, we are reminded of the incredible support that has been showered on the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation and on our family over the last seventeen years. We never anticipated the outpouring of prayers, support and generosity from the thousands of individuals who stepped forward to help us when our children Michael, Marcia and Christa were diagnosed with Niemann Pick Type C disease......

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----------Summer 2011 Newsletter

NP-C Scientific Conference Highlights

by Drs. Pam Tamez and Kasturi Haldar

The annual Michael, Marcia and Christa Parseghian Scientific Conference for Niemann-Pick Type C Research was held at the University of Notre Dame on June 9-11, 2011. Over 80 researchers and NP-C family members were in attendance for two very full days of presentations of the latest research developments, discussions and collaborations. The endowed conference will be held yearly at the University of Notre Dame. The 2012 meetings will be held June 7-9. We wish to thank Pam Tamez and Kasturi Haldar from the University of Notre Dame Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases for the following highlights of this year’s conference.

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Winter 2010 Newsletter

Annual Scientific Conference on Niemann-Pick Type C Disease

The annual Scientific Conference on NP-C Disease was held at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, Tucson, AZ on September 24-25, 2010. Over 65 researchers were in attendance for two very full days of presentations of the latest research developments, discussions and collaborations. Next year’s conference will be held at the University of Notre Dame on June 10 – 11, 2011. We wish to thank Dr. Suzanne Pfeffer for the following highlights of this year’s conference.

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Summer 2010 Newsletter

Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation Enhances Partnership with Notre Dame

Building on a long-standing relationship with the University of Notre Dame, we are pleased to announce the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation has strengthened its partnership with the University in order to support and advance research initiatives to find treatment options for Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC).

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Spring 2010 Newsletter

“Hoops for Hope”. . . Competing together for a cause . . . In the weeks leading up to the annual boys basketball game between rivals Harrison High School and West Lafayette High School in West Lafayette, IN, the two schools join together
to raise money for a charitable cause with an event called “Hoops for Hope”. This year the Student Council chose the Smith Family BReaK Thru Fund, a research fund that supports the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation. Students and fans purchased t-shirts to wear to the February 19th basketball game generating $13,500 for NP-C research! The Smith family has 4 children, 3 with NP-C disease. Sadly, Braden, age 10, died in 2006.

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Winter 2009 Newsletter

Heartfelt Thanks

The Notre Dame Club of Milwaukee hosted the ninth annual “Ara’s Outing 2009” in Brookfi eld, WI this past July. More than a dozen from “The Era” travelled to Milwaukee to honor Ara. 150 alumni and friends – including 13 Irish football players from the period of 1964- 74 – joined in the festivities at the beautiful Westmoor Country Club on Monday, July 13 to raise money for the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation (APMRF). Standing in for the Hall of Fame coach who was unable to attend, alumna and daughter-in-law, Cindy Parseghian, the APMRF’s president, thanked the attendees for the Club’s nine years worth of contributions, saying that it has accounted for more than $150,000 toward research to fi nd a cure for NP-C.

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