Community Events
Evenings with Genetics
Join us at the Children's Museum of Houston (1500 Binz St., Houston, TX 77004) on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 from 6:30 - 8:15 PM for a seminar on -
Care and research updates for children with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Speakers:
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Laurie Robak, MD, PhD, Instructor at Baylor College of Medicine, Molecular & Human Genetics
- Shailendra Das, DO, Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Pulmonary Medicine Service
Admission for this event is free but registration is required.
Texas Children's Family Fun Run
Families with children of all abilities are invited to participate in the Family Fun Run events in 2018, hosted by Texas Children’s Hospital and the Houston Marathon Foundation.
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West Campus Family Fun Run
April 7, 2018
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The Woodlands Family Fun Run
May 5, 2018
Rare Disease Day
On Saturday, Feb. 24, hundreds of patients, family members, community advocates, health care providers and more joined Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine to gather at The Health Museum in Houston, raising awareness for rare diseases in observance of the upcoming Rare Disease Day. Learn More
The First International Conference on SYNGAP1-related brain disorders
This conference utilized a novel multi-disciplinary approach to bring together patient families, clinicians and researchers as equal stakeholders in order to accelerate research discovery and close the gap to clinical impact. This event was conducted to unite the international clinicians and researchers invested in SYNGAP1 to foster collaborative approaches to identify the molecular underpinnings of the disease and potential new avenues of treatment. Learn More