Your Donation Helps the CAMK2 Community

Our Network’s short-term goals are to improve symptoms associated with CAMK2 disorders by repurposing known medications and to educate the medical community about how to care for affected children and adults. In the long term, we hope our work will lead to gene therapies to cure the condition.   You can review our 2026-2031 CAMK2 Therapeutics Network Strategic plan here.

Building and supporting the CAMK2 community takes time, effort, and resources. Your donation makes a real difference by helping us:

• Reach and educate families who are newly diagnosed or searching for answers

• Share clear, up-to-date research information and connect families with helpful specialists

• Offer emotional support by helping families learn from one another’s challenges and successes

• Bring families together at our international conference, where they can meet experts, build friendships, and feel less alone

Your Donation Supports Research

We work with scientists around the world to better understand CAMK2 and move us closer to future treatments. A major part of this effort involves creating stem-cell–based models from a small blood sample. These special cells allow researchers to safely study how each child’s specific CAMK2 change affects the body and to test medicines that might help.

Your support helps us:

• Build a CAMK2 Biobank, a secure collection of blood samples from affected children and their parents. These samples help researchers learn how CAMK2 changes work and which medicines might correct them—steps that are essential before clinical trials can begin.

• Grow international research partnerships so we can learn as much as possible about how CAMK2 affects brain development

• Maintain a confidential global patient registry, which documents all known CAMK2 cases. This information helps researchers understand the full picture of the condition and is critical for earning future research funding.

• Support long-term “natural history” studies, which track how CAMK2 conditions change over time and guide future treatments.

Your Donation Helps Improve Medical Care

Another important part of our work is helping doctors learn about CAMK2 so families can get the care they need. CAMK2 is still new to many clinicians, and families often struggle to find knowledgeable providers.

Your donation allows us to:

• Educate doctors worldwide about CAMK2-related disorders

• Connect families with qualified specialists, including developmental pediatricians, neurologists, psychiatrists, and cardiologists

• Host an annual international conference, where medical experts and researchers can collaborate and share breakthroughs

Participants at the first CAMK2 international conference held in the Netherlands, 2019