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❤️🩹 From PKAN Awareness to Super Bowl Spotlight 🏈: Stories of Purpose, Advocacy & Resilience
Episode 35
Sunday, 8 February, 2026
In this powerful and wide-ranging episode of The Injured List Podcast, we sit down with two inspiring guests who are using their voices and platforms to make a real impact—on and off the field.We’re joined by Sherine Blackford, founder of Loving Loic, a platform dedicated to raising awareness and funding for PKAN, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder. Sherine shares her deeply personal journey, the realities families face navigating rare disease, and how advocacy, community, and purpose can rise from unimaginable challenges.Learn more about the work she’s doing — and how you can contribute to the Super Bowl Give-Off fundraiser supporting PKAN research 👇We also welcome actor and comedian Todd Marcel Doram, who takes us behind the scenes of doing live correspondent work from the Super Bowl, alongside Deb Whitcas and Blonde Blitz. Todd talks about the grind, the energy of the biggest stage in sports, and how humor and storytelling create connection in high-pressure environments.This episode explores resilience, advocacy, creativity, and how people turn adversity into purpose—whether through awareness, fundraising, or entertainment.#TheInjuredListPodcast #PKANAwareness #RareDiseaseAwareness #PurposeDriven #Advocacy #Resilience #SuperBowl #SportsMedia #PodcastInterview #Storytelling🔗 Helpful Links:Donate to Loic's Cause: https://givebutter.com/biggameforpkan💙 Loving Loic FoundationThe Loving Loic Foundation was founded by Sherine and Mark Blackford in honor of their son, Loic, who was diagnosed with Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN)—a rare and fatal genetic disorder that affects as few as three in one million children. What began as one family’s fight has become a movement uniting PKAN families, researchers, clinicians, and supporters worldwide around one mission: to fund and accelerate the development of a gene therapy cure.In just two years, the Foundation has raised over $2.5 million, directly supporting groundbreaking PKAN gene therapy research led by Oregon Health & Science University and the Horae Gene Therapy Center at UMass Chan Medical School. This work builds on two decades of scientific progress and is designed to move a promising gene therapy from laboratory studies into human clinical trials.This Super Bowl, we’re channeling rivalry energy into something bigger than football.Loic is in Boston right now receiving treatment at Boston Children’s. So we’re hosting a Patriots vs. Seahawks rivalry donation war—two teams, one mission: fund the work that could save kids with PKAN, including our gene therapy research efforts with OHSU and the Horae Gene Therapy Center at UMass Chan Medical School.Our strategy is bold—because the timeline is urgent:Secure the remaining funding needed to complete pre-clinical studies and initiate Phase I/II trialsStrengthen partnerships among families, scientists, and donors to accelerate development and regulatory readinessExpand awareness of PKAN and rare diseases to drive advocacy and supportHow it works: pick your team, donate, and share. The team...
