Humanitarian Foundation BUDI HUMAN - Aleksandar Šapić

raises funds for Minja Lapčević (2021)

Minja started her struggle immediately after birth. She spent the first six months in intensive care due to problems with breathing, heart problems and epileptic seizures.

Numerous diagnostic analyzes were performed without success. Only after a genetic analysis in the eighth month, Minja was diagnosed with an extremely rare progressive metabolic disorder - adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency (ADSL).

Like most patients, she suffers from a severe form of the disease, which includes epilepsy, autism, cortical visual impairment and slow psychomotor development. Due to the severity and nature of the disease, Minja, at the age of sixteen months, does not have head control, does not sit, follow the gaze or speak.

Currently, there is no effective treatment for this rare disease.

Awaiting gene therapy, the family initiated a drug repurposing project in order to test the effect of approved drugs in treating ADSL. That was only the first step.

For Minja gene therapy is the only real solution! Via gene therapy she would acquire a missing functional ADSL gene which would improve her health permanently!

However, for project realization as well as gene therapy application great funds are needed.

Help Minja receive gene therapy! Let's be humane!

Let's help Minja!