by Laura Bonnell | May 1, 2023 | Podcasts
The CF community is a small, tight knit group. There are 40-thousand patients with CF in the U.S., and double the amount of parents. many of us in the CF community know each other, or have heard of one another. I did a podcast about CF Vests Worldwide, and todays...
by Laura Bonnell | Apr 20, 2023 | Blog
I was in Omaha, Nebraska Friday and Saturday to speak at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Education Day (Nebraska Medicine). I was talking to a lot of Mom’s whose kids were recently diagnosed with CF. My hope was to inspire and education them about CF and...
by Laura Bonnell | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
I recently had an amazing opportunity to visit and experience the Vertex Pharmaceuticals campus in San Diego. What an unbelievable opportunity to see and experience many of the people, the labs, the technology, and the beauty of a building that was created with such...
by Laura Bonnell | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
The Bonnell Foundation has awarded a $10,000 fellowship grant to Michigan Medicine in honor of Dr. Samya Nasr, who has changed what cystic fibrosis (CF) looks like for patients and families, says foundation founder Laura Bonnell. Bonnell decided a fellowship was a...
by Laura Bonnell | Apr 3, 2023 | Media/Press, Uncategorized
By Samya Nasr, MD, Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center It was always thought by the Egyptian Medical Society that CF does not exist in Egypt. One major problem has been the lack of the physicians’ awareness of the disease. Addressing that issue began in 1997, first...