Rosa Rademakers won the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for her discovery that a genetic abnormality causes both frontotemporal dementia and ALS. Her research, which started with a family with both diseases, showed that a repeat in the C9orf72 gene plays an important role. Although there is no treatment yet, the discovery has generated a lot of research and new insights into the diseases.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/04/17/rosa-rademakers-breakthrough-prize/
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Love to read articles like these, kudos to her and all the meaningful research she did! It will help a lot of people in the hopefully not too distant future.
Het meest fantastische is dat ze nu mee op de rode loper mág gaan staan tussen [een waanzinnige lijst van celebrities](https://i.imgur.com/f8y6jn4.png)!! Ongeloofelijk!