Mitochondrial Medicine Resources

https://www.chop.edu/mitochondria-facts

Mitochondria are the batteries that produce more than 90 percent of your body's energy. Learn more facts about mitochondria and mitochondrial disorder.

http://imgc.chop.edu/types-of-inheritance/mitochondrial-inheritance/

This resource from the Roberts Individualized Genetics Center explains how people with mitochondrial disease carry a mutation in a gene that affects the way their mitochondria work.

http://imgc.chop.edu/what-is-genetics/

This resource from the Roberts Individualized Genetics Center provides a visual overview about basic genetics and explains some of genetic test technologies available.

http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/Research/DrugForum/2017-MAR-08/Videos/Session-2-Videos/9-falk-video.aspx

Marni Falk, MD, Executive Director of the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at CHOP, talks about mitochondrial disease during the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYu6lY0BfA&t=951s

Dr. Marni Falk explains how healthy mitochondria work. She discusses how mutations in the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes can affect human health.

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/Research/MitoEthics/2016-MAR-21/Videos/1-Presentations-Video.aspx

Celia Witten, Director, Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapy, CBER/FDA; Jeffrey Kahn, Johns Hopkins University; Marni Falk, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; James Childress, University of Virginia; and R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, were invited speakers during a public discussion meeting in which they provided FDA perspective and committee overview on mitochondrial disease.

https://vimeo.com/207834037

Dr. Marni Falk provides a list of systems that can be affected by mitochondrial disease, in this video by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.

https://www.umdf.org/mito-101/

This tool provides information to help families and practitioners learn more about mitochondrial disease.

https://www.umdf.org/registry/

The "privacy assured" registry helps collect information that will assist in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial disease.

https://mseqdr.org/

The Mitochondrial Medicine team at CHOP provides this global resource to facilitate genomic and phenotype knowledge and data sharing and analysis across the global mitochondrial disease community.

http://www.umdf.org

The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation promotes research for and education about mitochondrial disorders to those affected by them.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05517-2

"Written by the world’s foremost mitochondrial researchers, the book comprehensively presents the state-of-the-art in mitochondrial medicine, making it of interest to a wide variety of specialists, including neurologists, geneticists, internists and biologists."