NCL-STIFTUNG

NCL is the most common form of childhood dementia. It is still fatal and not curable. To change this the NCL-Foundation invests in research, informs medics and tries to throw more light on this rare disease... After his six-year-old son Tim was diagnosed with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), Dr. Frank Husemann founded the non-profit NCL Foundation, which he supports in a voluntarily capacity. Back in 2002/2003 the founding of the NCL Foundation was the national service project of Round Table Germany and some tables still support us. The NCL Foundation is the largest single sponsor of scholarships in this field and connects research worldwide... Affected children go blind, suffer from epilepsy and increasingly lose their cognitive and motoric abilities until they die - usually before the age of 30. As the NCL Foundation, we are committed to national and international research funding in order to give children affected by NCL a prospect of previously missing therapeutic and..

Also known as: NCL, NCL Foundation

Primary location: Hamburg