{"id":1250,"date":"2024-09-02T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/father-created-a-drug-to-save-his-son-from-a-rare-disease-now-other-families-are-desperate-to-get-it\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T12:05:45","slug":"father-created-a-drug-to-save-his-son-from-a-rare-disease-now-other-families-are-desperate-to-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/father-created-a-drug-to-save-his-son-from-a-rare-disease-now-other-families-are-desperate-to-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Father created a drug to save his son from a rare disease, now other families are desperate to get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>When his infant son was diagnosed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\/rare-diseases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare, fatal disease<\/a>, a Canadian father was dismayed to discover there was no treatment or cure. So he set out to make one himself.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Pirovolakis, an IT director in Toronto, Ontario, welcomed his third son in Dec. 2017. It was a &#8220;normal, healthy birth,&#8221; he told Fox News Digital \u2014 but within six months, he and his wife, Georgia Pirovolakis, noticed their baby, Michael, was not lifting his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just didn\u2019t seem like he was meeting his milestones,&#8221; Pirovolakis said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/mother-frantic-save-clinical-trial-could-cure-daughter-treatment-sitting-fridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MOTHER FRANTIC TO SAVE CLINICAL TRIAL THAT COULD CURE HER DAUGHTER: \u2018THE TREATMENT IS SITTING IN A FRIDGE&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of doctors\u2019 appointments, physiotherapy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/natural-science\/genetics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genetic testing<\/a> \u2014 what Pirovolakis describes as an &#8220;18-month diagnostic odyssey&#8221; \u2014 a neurologist diagnosed baby Michael with spastic paraplegia 50 (SPG50), a neurological disorder that affects fewer than 100 people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They told us to just go home and love him \u2014 and said he would be paralyzed from the waist down by age 10, and quadriplegic by age 20,&#8221; Pirovolakis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said he\u2019d never walk or talk, and would need support for the rest of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spastic paraplegia 50 (SPG50) is a neurological disorder that affects a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child\u2019s development<\/a>, gradually leading to cognitive impairment, muscle weakness, speech impairment and paralysis, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Most people with the disease will die by the time they reach their 20s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children with SPG50 may experience early developmental delays, muscle weakness and spasticity, but they continue to strive and adapt,&#8221; Dr. Eve Elizabeth Penney, an epidemiologist at the Texas Department of State Health Services and medical contributor for Drugwatch, told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/angelman-syndrome-colin-farrells-son-living-rare-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHAT IS ANGELMAN SYNDROME? COLIN FARRELL\u2019S SON IS LIVING WITH THIS RARE DISEASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over time, these symptoms can worsen, making it hard for affected individuals to walk and perform daily activities,&#8221; added Penney, who was not involved in Michael Pirovolakis\u2019 care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prognosis varies from person to person, but it\u2019s generally a progressive condition, meaning symptoms can become more severe over time,&#8221; she also said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a cure, most families can only manage symptoms through physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/medications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medications to help<\/a> control spasticity or seizures, Penney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Managing SPG50 requires a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to address its various symptoms and challenges,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>There is no treatment currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for SPG50.<\/p>\n<p>After the shock of the diagnosis, Pirovolakis immediately started researching, with a focus on finding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/alternative-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gene therapy<\/a> that could help his son.<\/p>\n<p>A month after his baby\u2019s diagnosis, Pirovolakis flew to Washington, D.C., for a gene therapy conference, where he met with several experts. He also visited Sheffield, England, and the National Institutes of Health at the University of Cambridge, where scientists had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying the disease<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We then liquidated our life savings, refinanced our home and paid a team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to create a proof of concept to start Michael&#8217;s gene therapy,&#8221; Pirovolakis said.<\/p>\n<p>After successful tests showed the gene therapy was effective at stopping the disease\u2019s progression in mice and in human cells, Pirovolakis worked with a small drug company in Spain to manufacture the drug.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 30, 2021, Health Canada granted approval to move forward with the gene therapy for Michael Pirovolakis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/stiff-person-syndrome-patients-share-like-live-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>STIFF PERSON SYNDROME PATIENTS SHARE WHAT IT\u2019S LIKE TO LIVE WITH THE RARE DISEASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On March 24, 2022, my son was the first person to ever get treated with gene therapy at SickKids in Toronto,&#8221; Pirovolakis said.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure, which involves injecting cerebral spinal fluid through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lumbar puncture<\/a>, does come with risks \u2014 but the potential benefits are life-saving.<\/p>\n<p>After Michael Pirovolakis received the one-time treatment, there were three more doses left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided that we had to help other kids,&#8221; Pirovolakis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I heard that no one was going to do anything about it, I had to \u2014 I couldn&#8217;t let them die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pirovolakis opened up a Phase 2 study in the U.S., which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treated three children<\/a> two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of those was 6-month-old Jack Lockard, the youngest child to ever receive the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack has thrived since then,&#8221; Rebekah Lockard, the boy\u2019s mother, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/girl-who-cant-smile-rare-disorder-became-woman-greatest-gift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE GIRL WHO CAN\u2019T SMILE: HOW A RARE DISORDER BECAME A YOUNG WOMAN&#8217;S \u2018GREATEST GIFT\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is sitting independently, banging toys together, drinking from a straw cup and working really hard on crawling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;Doctors and therapists share the same sentiment: The treatment works!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other children who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participated in the trial<\/a> have experienced similar results, Lockard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve all shown that their disease has stopped progressing and their cognition has improved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are more children who still need the treatment \u2014 including Lockard\u2019s first child, 3-year-old Naomi, who also has SPG50 \u2014 but are unable to access it because the clinical trial has now run out of money, as Fox News Digital previously reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It costs about $1 million to make the drug for each child, Pirovolakis said, and another $300,000 or so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to treat the patient<\/a> in the U.S. at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pirovolakis has approached pharmaceutical companies, but all of them have declined to manufacture the drug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No investor is going to give you money to treat a disease that is not going to make money,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the dilemma we&#8217;re in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Pirovolakis and his team are actively working to secure grants and investors, it\u2019s largely up to the parents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/fundraising\">to raise funds<\/a> for the next phase of the clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Lockard has raised more than $90,000 via GoFundMe (called &#8220;Naomi and Jack Battle SPG50&#8221;) to get her daughter\u2019s treatment, but that is only a fraction of what is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Penney noted that treatment for SPG50 is challenging and expensive to develop \u2014 &#8220;mainly because it\u2019s a sporadic disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The doctor told Fox News Digital, &#8220;Pharmaceutical companies often prioritize conditions that affect larger populations, with a more significant potential for recouping research and development costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/children-total-deafness-regain-hearing-groundbreaking-gene-therapy-miracle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHILDREN WITH TOTAL DEAFNESS REGAIN HEARING AFTER \u2018GROUNDBREAKING\u2019 GENE THERAPY: \u2018LIKE A MIRACLE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market is much smaller for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\/rare-diseases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare diseases<\/a> like SPG50, making it financially less viable for companies to invest in creating a treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To devote himself to the cause, Pirovolakis quit his job and started a nonprofit in California, which now has five employees and 20 consultants.<\/p>\n<p>The company \u2014 called Elpida Therapeutics, after the Greek word for &#8220;hope&#8221; \u2014 will run a Phase 3 study for SPG50 at the NIH in November.<\/p>\n<p>Without the backing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/fox-news-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major drug companies<\/a>, however, there isn\u2019t funding available to get the therapies to the children who need them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eight doses of the drug for SPG50 were produced in Spain and have been flown to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The treatment is here, just literally sitting in a refrigerator, ready to go,&#8221; Lockard said. &#8220;Doctors are ready. There just isn&#8217;t enough money to make it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>For more Health articles, visit <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.foxnews.com\/health<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are currently four families in the U.S. who are trying to raise the money that&#8217;s needed, according to Pirovolakis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time is of the essence,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We want to make sure the trial moves on and these kids get treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the Phase 3 clinical trial at the NIH, Pirovolakis\u2019 goal is to treat eight children with SPG50.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can show that it works in all eight children \u2014 and we can prove to the FDA that it is making a difference \u2014 then the drug will get approved and every child can get it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, after the drug is approved \u2014 which could take three to five years, Pirovolakis estimates \u2014 SPG50 will be added to hospitals\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/events\/babies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newborn screening programs<\/a> and every child with the disease will be able to get the therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Elpida Therapeutics has partnered with the Columbus Children\u2019s Foundation (Fundaci\u00f3n Columbus in Spain) and CureSPG50 to help save children with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our partnership with Elpida is driven by an unwavering commitment to leaving no child behind,&#8221; Sheila Mikhail, co-founder of the CCF, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the Columbus Children&#8217;s Foundation and Fundacion Columbus, as a global organization, we believe that every child deserves a chance for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthy future<\/a>. Together, we&#8217;re making groundbreaking strides in treating ultra-rare genetic disorders, ensuring that no child is left to face these challenges alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pirovolakis said he gets several calls each week from families around the world, asking for help saving their children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the biggest challenge in providing treatment for children with rare diseases often comes down to a lack of funding and vision,&#8221; he told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\/medical-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The technology<\/a> to cure our children is already here. I hope that someone with immense wealth \u2014 and more importantly, the vision and influence \u2014 will step in,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their support could not only impact a handful of diseases and children, but extend hope to thousands of rare diseases and millions of children, both this generation and the next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, 40 million Americans are living with a rare disease, and one in 10 will be afflicted by a potentially treatable rare condition.<\/p>\n<p>Pirovolakis added, &#8220;Someone you know or love will likely be affected by a rare disease.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When his infant son was diagnosed with a rare, fatal disease, a Canadian father was dismayed to discover there was no treatment or cure. 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