The Andy Golden Memorial Fund - generously established by his wife and daughter through a $50,000 endowment to the SADS Foundation - continues a legacy of support and research for rare heart conditions. Andy Golden, Ph.D. was a Senior Investigator and Section Chief with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he is remembered as a brilliant scientist and mentor. Andy was instrumental in the advancement of research for Timothy Syndrome (TS), a rare genetic condition supported by SADS that affects a child’s heart, nervous, and immune systems. He drew inspiration from the TS parents and kids he met at the SADS conference and went on to successfully model a TS worm in his lab to improve the symptoms of TS kids. “Andy was a natural leader among our families - it was particularly evident by his popularity at our conferences,” says Alice Lara, RN, Executive Director of the SADS Foundation. “It is in keeping with Andy’s many generous donations to SADS over the years, that Alexandra and Zoe created this fund ensuring the tremendous generosity Andy showed in donations, his time, knowledge, and energy will continue to be felt by families even as his physical presence is terribly missed.” Read our press release at https://lnkd.in/gaRBEFbT.
