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    The American Society of Human Genetics announced the question for the 2019 Essay Contest. The annual contest is open to students from around the world in grades 9 – 12. The winning submission will be awarded $1,000 and $1,000 in lab equipment for the...

Steve Shank, an HPSer who received a double lung transplant two years ago, shared his story with Minnesota KARE 11 News in July. Steve had hoped to participate as a bicyclist in the American Transplant Games, but sadly had to stay home after being hospitalized with an...

Caren Shank returned to Iowa this past June to join with her husband’s ophthalmologists and give a presentation about Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome at the 2018 Iowa Eye Annual Meeting. The presentation was called “The Importance of Gene Testing in Albinism – It Is Not...

Enjoy a juicy steak and help us fund the cure, Sept. 25 between 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Outback Steakhouse, 901 Route 73 South in Marlton, NJ. Tell the server you’re there to support the HPS Network, and a portion of your bill will benefit us. Enjoy some steak and...

A multi-disciplinary clinic for anyone with HPS will be held Oct. 20 at Mayaguez Medical Center in Puerto Rico. The clinic is free, and is a chance for children and adults with HPS to consult with a variety of physicians knowledgeable about Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome....

  Mothers of children with HPS will gather for their third annual workshop Friday, March 8, 2019 at the 26th Annual HPS Network Conference. The HPS Network Conference will be held March 8 – 10, 2019 at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, NY. The Mother’s...

Kylee Brantner’s Girl Scout troop voted to donate left over funds from their year to the HPS Network in July. Kylee is a person with HPS and has done several HPS fundraisers over the years with her friends. The HPS Network is grateful to Girl Scouts of Western...

  A group of healthcare professionals from the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society are working together to agree on the best and most appropriate spirometry testing methods. They are asking lung patients from around the world who have...

The American Lung Association is asking patients with all forms of lung disease who are using, or have used, home oxygen to take a survey, the results of which, will be used to aid advocacy work in regard to access and quality of home oxygen. As patients with HPS, and...

  Flor Otero, who received a double lung transplant in May, shared her story with the Highlands News-Sun and it was published in the June 18th edition of the paper. Otero was able to share about her surgery, raise awareness about organ donation as well as explain...

The HPS Network is offering a wallet-sized medical health alert card that has a QR code physicians or emergency personnel can scan to instantly be directed to information about HPS, treating bleeding and even some of the key standard-of-care medical papers they might...

Join the HPS Network and eat for the cure Saturday, Aug. 18 at Mamma Gina’s Pizzeria, 104 East Merrick Rd in Valley Stream, N.Y. The event will run from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Mamma Gina’s Pizzeria will donate 20 percent of your bill to the HPS Network if you mention the...

  Families impacted by Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome will gather for the 26th Annual HPS Network Conference, March 8 – 10, 2019, at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, N.Y. This year’s theme: “Life is Sweet When We Are Together.” The HPS Network Conference is a...

  Since you registered with the HPS Network, have you updated us about your health history? Keeping us up to date on major developments helps us find you should there be a research development or opportunity that might be applicable to your situation. Have you,...

Without research, we will never find better treatments, and someday, a cure for HPS. If you would like to participate in HPS research let us know you are interested. There may or may not be an opportunity currently that is the right fit, but it helps if we know you...

Dr. William Gahl, Clinical Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Head of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program and Senior Investigator, Medical Genetics Branch at the National Institutes of Health, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the...

The HPS Network exhibited at the annual meeting of the New York Thoracic Society, held March 23-24, 2018 at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. Exhibiting at this event gives the HPS Network a chance to reach out to pulmonologists in New York to increase...

Oyster Bay, NY – The Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network (HPS Network) donated $5,000 to the 2018 Federation of American Societies for  Experimental Biology (FASEB) Science Research Conference on “The Lung Epithelium in Health and Disease.” The FASEB conference will be...

Becky Nieves and Sandra Ocasio, both mothers of someone with HPS, are organizing a fundraising project and they’d like your child’s help. They are creating a 15-page book, written and illustrated by kids with HPS, their siblings and the children of adults with HPS,...

Friends and supporters of Amber Klein ate for the cure in May at Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant in Newark, DE. Bertucci’s is particularly known for its brick oven pizza. “We were really lucky that the restaurant, especially one of the waitresses, was so nice to us,”...

Blood and stool samples for five different protocols were collected within the span of two hours at the HPS Network 25th Annual Conference, held March 9 – 11 in Uniondale, N.Y. “This project had several logistical challenges,” says Valarie Friedman, RN and Medical...

Congressmen Andre Carson (D-IN) and Ryan Costello, (R-PA) have introduced the Rare disease Advancement, Research and Education Act (H.R.5115) to the U.S. House of Representatives. The HPS Network has joined more than 100 other patient organizations and the National...

A person with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) was the first person to receive a lung transplant at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, a newly opened transplant program in New York City. Wanda Cepeda received her double lung transplant Feb. 10th. Cepeda had been turned...

The Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network (HPS Network) was awarded a Patient Advocacy Leadership Award by Sanofi Genzyme to support the Network’s “Individualized Research Plan” (IRP) project. To prepare for future recruitment into drug trials, the Network is working with...

Hermanksy-Pudlak Syndrome Education Day About: The American Thoracic Society (ATS), the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network (HPS Network) and the San Juan City Hospital (Puerto Rico) presents a free one day education seminar on Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome. This event is...