by RRoberts0 | Aug 17, 2026 | Patient Stories
Dr. Rafael Bejar has focused on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related blood disorders since some of the earliest days in his medical career. During his second year of fellowship, he worked out of a lab that was doing patient-facing research, where each of his...
by RRoberts0 | Aug 17, 2026 | Investigator Profiles
Dr. Arun Rajasekaran knew he wanted to spend his career on glomerular disease while he was still in medical school. Today, as a nephrologist and clinical trial investigator, he brings that same fascination to a field he believes is only beginning to show how complex,...
by RRoberts0 | Aug 17, 2026 | Patient Stories
Mallory is twenty. She’s a college sophomore studying special education, she works at an after-school daycare, and her boyfriend is in the Air Force. She loves to travel. She and her family pick a state and then road-trip to all the ones around it, and she’s about to...
by RRoberts0 | Aug 17, 2026 | Patient Stories
A seizure in the night, a diagnosis that upended everything, and twenty-one years of learning to read her own body Miki was pregnant with her first child when epilepsy announced itself. She did not know she had it. One night in 2004, she had a grand mal seizure in her...
by RRoberts0 | Aug 17, 2026 | Articles
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that occurs when the immune system attacks the layer surrounding nerve cells, known as the myelin sheath. When myelin is lost, it damages nerves and disrupts...