RUN’s Educational Series: RARE Evolution with Recursion
RUN is excited to share a video from our first RUN Educational Series with Recursion Pharmaceuticals. This event was designed to inspire, motivate, and spark collaboration among the rare disease stakeholders including patients, healthcare providers, researchers, companies, institutions, and legislators in our state.
In addition to hearing from our amazing line-up of speakers, we also screened One In a Million with Special Guests August and Tyler Teuscher.
A very special thank you to Cache Walker, Dr. Lorenzo Botto, Angie Serrano, Dr. Stacey Clardy, Ron Alfa and Kevin Lynch for sharing their story and to our special guests August and Tyler Teuscher.
Thank you to Kelly Porter, Becky Webb and to everyone involved at Recursion for making the event a huge success!
Thank you to Anne Bruns for her continued support of RUN’s mission and for creating RUN’s Educational Series.
Photography by Minus Plus
Music by Jeffrey Michael
Rare-Disease advocate and member of the Angioma Alliance. In 2012, Cache moved to Utah with his family (wife: Lindsey and son: Camden) to pursue a career in marketing. Cache had a healthy childhood and was even a collegiate athlete. In 2013, Cache was diagnosed with a cavernous malformation in his brain stem.
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Senior Vice President, Translational Discovery at Recursion. Ron’s team manages commercial and translational strategy for Recursion’s early portfolio. Ron received training in Medicine, as well as Neurosciences & Genetics at Stanford University where his work contributed to the discovery of new hormone signals in humans.
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Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Penelope Undiagnosed and Rare Disease Program at the University of Utah. Principal Investigator of the Intermountain West site of NIH’s Undiagnosed Disease Program.
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Stacey is both clinical and research faculty in the Division of Neuroimmunology within the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. She is also a Staff Neurologist at the Salt Lake City VA.
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Postdoctoral fellow in H. Joseph Yost Lab at the University of Utah. Presently, she is researching Kabuki Syndrome using a zebrafish genetic model and human cerebral organoids samples in order to understand the key biological processes that trigger cardiovascular and neurological defects in these patients.
Co-founder and Executive Director for the Rare and Undiagnosed Network (RUN) Her three children, each of whom live with an undiagnosed rare disease, continue to inspire and motivate her to empower rare and undiagnosed patients and their families with genomic information and community through advocacy, networking and support.
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Kevin holds the position of Chief Business Officer of Recursion, where he leads external business strategy and activities. Prior to this, Kevin held the position of VP, Search and Evaluation for Abbvie, leading a global team of licensing professionals responsible for search, evaluation, and due diligence of all BD opportunities. Kevin has more than 26 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, with half of those spent in the business development arena.
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Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, August has lived in Utah for most of her life. She and her husband Chad have five children ranging from ages 5 to 22, of which Tyler is the second oldest. Motivated by Tyler and a desire to improve life for her entire family, August earned a nursing degree and is currently training to become a family nurse practitioner.
ABOUT Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Organizer of RARE Evolution
We are discovering transformative new treatments by leveraging the speed of automation with the intelligence of computers. It’s drug discovery at unprecedented pace.
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ABOUT RUN
RUN stands for the Rare & Undiagnosed Network. We’re a group of advocates, patients, families, researchers, and healthcare providers who share the same mission and vision: To empower rare and undiagnosed patients and their families with genomic information and community through advocacy, networking and support.
Contact information:
Gina Szajnuk (Zanik)
Co-founder and Executive Director
E: ginaszajnuk@gmail.com
C: (310) 883-4353
To Read: “What is the hardest part of being undiagnosed?” by Gina Szajnuk
To Read: “Undiagnosed is a Diagnosis” by Ava and Gina Szajnuk
To Read: The Szajnuk Journey
