About This Series
In an effort to spotlight recent research progress, cureCADASIL facilitated the CADASIL Connection series of webinars. These insightful, pre-recorded sessions offer invaluable opportunities to educate and unite a diverse audience of researchers, clinicians, and patients.
We invite you to take advantage of these valuable resources to deepen your understanding of CADASIL and stay informed about its evolving landscape.
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2026
2025
November 2025
Dr. Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD
Repurposing a Pill Therapy for the Treatment of CADASIL
Dr. Arboleda-Velasquez is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute. His research focuses on small vessel diseases that affect the eye and the brain. In this session, he discusses how existing medications may be repurposed to offer new hope for individuals living with CADASIL.
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June 2025
Dr. Helena Karlström
Immunization Therapies for CADASIL
Helena Karlström has made important contributions to understanding the mechanisms in Notch3 biology in relation to CADASIL. Her lab aims to better understand the molecular mechanisms of this condition to develop therapeutics. The hypothesis: if the immune system can be harnessed to clear Notch3 deposits, CADASIL can potentially be halted and progression reversed.
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2024
April 2024
Fanny Elahi, M.D., Ph.D.
The Power of Patient-Partnered Research in CADASIL
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative-funded Patient-Partnered Collaboration between cureCADASIL and Dr. Elahi's team has resulted in significant advancements. By collaborating with patients, Dr. Elahi has gained novel insights into the disease and the patient experience.
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March 2024
Elisa Ferrante, Ph.D.
CADASIL Clinical Studies at the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Ferrante, Principal Investigator of the CADASIL Disease Discovery Study and Clinical Program Manager/Staff Scientist at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, discusses NIH clinical studies aimed at understanding the development and progression of CADASIL.
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January 2024
Jane Paulsen, Ph.D.
Family Participation: The Key to Success in Genetic Research
Lead Principal Investigator of the CADASIL Consortium Study and Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Paulsen explains the importance of enrolling CADASIL patients and their families in the Consortium study and how this produces a more complete understanding of the disease.
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2023
October 2023
Elena Muiño, MD, Ph.D.
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing for Discovering Therapeutic Drug Targets in CADASIL
Neurologist with the Stroke Pharmacogenomics and Genetics Group at the Sant Pau Institute for Biomedical Research in Barcelona, Spain, Dr. Muiño presents cutting-edge RNA sequencing approaches to identify new drug targets for CADASIL.
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August 2023
José Biller, MD
Update on the NIH Funded CADASIL Consortium Study
Dr. José Biller provides the CADASIL community with updates on his research in partnership with the NIH Funded CADASIL Consortium Study.
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May 2023
Marc Vila Cuenca, Ph.D.
CADASIL Vessel-on-Chip for Disease Modeling and Drug Development
Senior post-doctoral researcher at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Dr. Vila Cuenca discusses vessel-on-chip as an emerging technology to understand the structure and function of blood vessels in CADASIL and to study potential therapies.
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2022
November 2022
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
The CADASIL Patient-Partnered Therapeutic Discovery Pipeline
Physician/Scientist in the Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Dr. Elahi discusses modeling the CADASIL disease process to make discoveries with therapeutic potential.
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April 2022
Masayo Koide, MD, PhD
Capillary Dysfunction by CADASIL: The Smallest Vessels Have the Biggest Impact
Recipient of a University of Pennsylvania Orphan Disease Center Million Dollar Bike Ride research grant, Dr. Koide from the University of Vermont presents her research on the impact of CADASIL on brain capillaries and their regulation of cerebral blood flow.
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2021
December 2021
Julie Rutten, MD, PhD
Why Do Certain Individuals with a NOTCH3 Mutation Develop CADASIL and Others Do Not?
Dr. Rutten from the Department of Clinical Genetics of the Leiden University Medical Center presents her research on NOTCH3 genetic mutations and their relationship to the clinical presentation of CADASIL, focusing on understanding the role of genetic modifiers.
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April 2021
Fabrice Dabertrand, Ph.D.
Restoring Cerebral Blood Flow in a CADASIL Model
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at University of Colorado and recipient of the 2019 Million Dollar Bike Ride seed grant, Dr. Dabertrand shares insights on cerebral blood flow in a CADASIL mouse model, explains pericytes and their role, and the effects of PIP₂ in increasing blood flow to the brain.
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2018
September 2018
Saskia A.J. Lesnik Oberstein, M.D., Ph.D.
CADASIL and NOTCH3: Genotyping, Phenotyping and Exon Skipping
Clinical Neurogeneticist at the Leiden University Medical Center, Dr. Lesnik Oberstein presents new insights into NOTCH3 mutations and the current status of her lab's published exon-skipping gene therapy as a potential therapeutic strategy for CADASIL.
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February 2018
Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, M.D., Ph.D.
Harnessing the Power of the Immune System to Develop Therapies for CADASIL
Dr. Arboleda-Velasquez discusses the design and analysis of CADASIL mouse models, recent research findings and establishing feasibility for a novel modality of treatment for cerebral small vessel disease.
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2017
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April 2018
Dr. Michael Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Molecular Clues from CADASIL Brain Analysis
Chief of Neurology at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan, Dr. Wang studies the mechanisms of vascular degeneration and defining pathological proteins that build up in CADASIL.
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December 2017
Jorge Ortiz Garcia, M.D.
The Misdiagnosis of CADASIL — One Institution's Experience
Dr. Jorge Ortiz Garcia, a neurocritical care fellow, provides insight to CADASIL diagnosis and describes one institution's experience with misdiagnosis of this rare disease.
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October 2017
Manfred Boehm, M.D.
The NIH CADASIL Disease Discovery Program
Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Principal Investigator for the CADASIL Disease Discovery Clinical Trial, Dr. Boehm shares an inside view of the CADASIL Disease Discovery Study being conducted at the NIH.
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August 2017
Li-Ru Zhao, Ph.D., M.D.
Exploring a Therapeutic Approach for CADASIL: The Efficacy of Bone Marrow Stem Cell Factors in Brain Repair
Dr. Zhao presents research on the potential of bone marrow stem cell factors as a therapeutic approach for CADASIL and brain repair.
Note: The sound quality is low for the first several minutes, then improves for the remainder of the presentation.
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This cureCADASIL webinar series is supported by a grant from Global Genes, generous community donations, and the time of valued volunteers.