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Media Attention

Our determination to save the children, along with the medical research and breakthroughs we support, has garnered national media attention including: Dateline NBC, Leeza, Montel, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post as well as a variety of news programs and newspapers worldwide.

Canavan Gene Therapy offers Max Randell & Family Hope
(Philadelphia Inquirer) July 6, 2001

At Jefferson, experiments into a fatal disorder may have broad implications. Ilyce and Michael Randell trade off holding and comforting their only child, Max, 31/2, as they sit on a bed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. They carefully support his shaved head, freshly scarred from a highly experimental gene-therapy treatment he had two days earlier - a treatment they hope will slow the relentless progression of his fatal disorder...

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Max Randell - New Genes Provide Hope to Palatine boy
(Daily Herald) July 5, 2001

Only days after undergoing a groundbreaking experimental gene transplant, 31/2-year-old Max Randell was cradled in his mother's arms on the floor of their Palatine condo, listening to her croon a little song "Who has 90 billion new genes in his head"...

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Max Randell - Battle Over Gene Therapy Puts Hopes on Hold 
(Washington Post) March 7, 2000


Like most 2-year-olds, Max Randell is a bundle of exuberance, gaining new mastery over the world with every passing day. But unlike most children his age, Max has just about reached the prime of his life...

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