"What a difference a year makes" was a theme of this year's Friedrich's Ataxia Scientific Symposium hosted by USF and the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA).

Researchers, clinicians, patients and their families gathered Sept. 4 at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation for the sixth annual symposium, which was also live streamed over Facebook to an international audience.

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