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Mission Foundation

Madisons Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of information available to parents of children with rare, life-threatening diseases, and to facilitating effective communication amongst parents, physicians and medical experts

Our Values

Our core value is that information is support. We believe helping parents make informed decisions can alleviate some of the frustration they inevitably experience when fighting for their children's lives.

Our Accomplishments

The Madisons Foundation Rare Disease Research Project enlists UCLA medical students to work with afflicted children, their parents and attending physician specialists to generate accurate – and parent-friendly – data about diseases and available treatments. Developed in conjunction with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, we believe these students are the vanguard of a new generation of physicians who embrace the special challenge of communicating effectively with parents and children.

Our web site is designed as an online community where parents have access to valuable data resources about rare, life-threatening diseases in children, as well as to other parents in similar straits.

Madisons Foundation also participates in fund-raising activities for the Emerging Therapies Initiative in Pediatric Cancer at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. This program’s mission: reducing laboratory-to-bedside lead times for emerging therapies for children with rare tumors, a leading cause of death in children less than 14 years.

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