Scn2a Foundation

Our children cannot wait. Neither will we.

SCN2A disorders cause severe pediatric epilepsy, autism, and intellectual disability. There is no cure. No disease-modifying therapy. Just families watching their children seize, regress, and lose ground every day we delay.

The SCN2A Foundation was built to close that gap — with speed, science, and capital efficiency the traditional system doesn't allow.

We pursue three paths to a treatment, simultaneously:

• Small molecules — oral therapies that can scale to every patient
• Genetic medicines — ASOs and precision approaches that target SCN2A at its source
• AI for families — the first domain-tuned AI in rare disease, putting clinical insight directly into caregivers' hands

Why we can deliver:

I founded this Foundation after my own son's diagnosis, bringing 20+ years building and scaling technology companies (Centric Digital, Mutual Mobile, Vaimo) and advising leading genomics organizations (Invitae, Exact Sciences, Probably Genetic, Citizen Health). I hold MIT certificates in Drug Development and AI in Pharma & Biotech, and was selected for the Milken Institute FasterCures LeadersLink 2026 cohort.

Our work has already contributed to a Praxis Precision Medicines IND filing, optimized the PRAX-562 Phase 2 trial design, and launched an active drug discovery collaboration with Unravel Biosciences.

Our team brings the credibility this work demands:

• Shannon Curry, RN, Co-Founder — 20+ years across UPMC, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Westchester Medical Center
• Ryan Quiel — Product leader at Gusto, former co-founder of Giving Assistant
• Mathew Lawrence — Clinical research and healthcare analytics leader, Six Sigma certified
• Dr. Jerry Vockley, MD, PhD — Chief of Medical Genetics at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; FDA Genetic Metabolic Disease Advisory Committee
• Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, MD, FAAP — NYT bestselling author, 25+ years in pediatric integrative medicine
• Val Prisecaru, MS, CN, LDN — Precision health and nutrigenomics expert

We operate lean. Pro bono counsel from Morrison & Foerster. Every dollar moves directly to the science and the families.

Your gift compresses the timeline between diagnosis and treatment. That's not rhetoric — it's what we do, every week, with the resources we're given.

Help us deliver. Donate today.