Writing testimonials in the RE(ACT) TMAU group

RE(ACT) Crowdfunding site especially for rare disorders including TMAU

Link to RE(ACT) TMAU group

RE(ACT) is a Swiss charity, part of the BlackSwan Foundation. It is a recently started website intended to allow rare disorders to raise funding for projects. In particular it wants to attract researchers to put forward projects which the public may then donate to. So far only one project has been put forward on the whole website and that only went live about 1 month ago. (pilot study for CMN disorder)

About posting in the RE(ACT) TMAU group
Sufferers can interact with researchers on the RE(ACT) website by posting their 'experiences' of their condition. This is the same concept as writing a 'testimonial' on the Rare Connect TMAU group page.

RE(ACT states about the idea behind the 'experience' pages :

  I am a patient and I want to meet other patients, is the RE(ACT) Community a Patient Network?

• Our community is principally addressed to researchers and to patients and/patients organization which are actively implicated in research projects. If you want to meet patients and share your experience we suggest you to use the Eurordis' RareConnect platform. The RE(ACT) Community encourages patients to share their knowledge and experiences on treatments or to provide other scientific observations  to researchers in order to give them a better understanding of the disease and help them in finding new treatments.

Link

Donating to the RE(ACT) TMAU group
People can donate to the RE(ACT) TMAU group via paypal, either by being signed in or donating anonymously. 10% of the donation goes towards RE(ACT) admin costs. Perhaps over time this fee will drop. Any money given to the TMAU group will be kept in the general TMAU fund until a project is approved which will then be given any accrued money.

Signing up to the RE(ACT) TMAU group
Many people have said they have not been able to sign up to the RE(ACT) TMAU group. It seems that quite often the clarification email is in the spam folder, although sometimes does not arrive at all. RE(ACT) is in beta mode, and hopefully the bugs will eventually be ironed out.