$2,500
Raised of $20,000
MEF2C United
Team Profile
Team participating in 2025 Million Dollar Bike Ride
Captained by Tushar Puthran
US MEF2C Foundation : Accelerating a cure. Enhancing care. Empowering Families.
Scientists are investigating treatments for individuals with disease-causing mutations in the MEF2C gene. These treatments could be groundbreaking since there are currently no cures for this condition, which causes lifelong mental and physical disabilities.
The next step is to conduct a detailed study of our patient population. This study will help us to better understand our patients and to prepare for a clinical trial. It will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments in a clinical trial, which the FDA requires for approval.
The US MEF2C Foundation is collaborating with Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, clinical and molecular geneticist and Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a leader in the rare disease arena.
The US MEF2C Foundation is raising funds for our project with the lab of Dr. Wendy Chung at Boston Children’s Hospital. These funds will be used to study our patients and gather important information about their condition. Your donation will fund evaluations of our patients and the creation of a comprehensive assessment record, called a natural history. This patient based research will form the basis for measuring how well the treatments work.
The ultimate goal is to be ready for clinical trials as soon as possible and to accelerate the speed at which treatments are available to patients.
The US MEF2C Foundation needs your support to reach this goal. All contributions will help to accelerate treatments and a cure for our patients.
Join Team MEF2C United and help us make a difference—every dollar raised goes directly to the US MEF2C Foundation to support groundbreaking research.
Please visit our website US MEF2C Foundation to learn more.
Team Members 8
Anne Lenzin
Tushar Puthran
Snehal Marathe
Myra Puthran
Sara Puthran
Tushar Puthran
3 wk. ago
Team MEF2C United is incredibly grateful to be part of MDBR 2025, an inspiring event that brought together so many rare disease groups. Here’s to more impact, more collaboration, and more community.
Donations 6
Organizations participating in the 2025 Million Dollar Bike Ride will receive the funds raised by their team. Your donation plays a pivotal role, allowing organizations to not only support rare disease research, but make a direct impact on patients and families in their rare disease community. Thank you!
Million Dollar Bike Ride is coordinated by Penn Medicine's Orphan Disease Center. Funds from the 2025 Million Dollar Bike Ride are being distributed to teams through partnership with rare-disease nonprofit, Uplifting Athletes.