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Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Sara Custer, PhD, of Indiana University
Audrey Lewis founded Families of SMA, now Cure SMA, 30 years ago. Audrey recognized early on the importance of attracting new and talented researchers to SMA, with the hope that […]
Read More ›Together, We Made History
Thanks to you, we raised over $770,000 in the month of December, as part of our annual campaign. The stage is set for historic advances in SMA research over the […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Announces New $50,000 Care Research Grant to Rebecca Davis in the Lab of Dr. Swoboda at University of Utah
Cure SMA has awarded a $50,000 clinical care grant to Rebecca Hurst Davis in the lab of Dr. Kathy Swoboda, for her project focusing on blood sugar levels in SMA. […]
Read More ›NIH Releases Summary of the SO-SMART Workshop
During the Annual SMA Conference in Washington DC this past June, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) hosted a workshop on clinical trial design in SMA for drug developers, clinical […]
Read More ›Fall 2014 Issue of Directions Now Online
The Fall 2014 issue of Directions is now available. Directions, our biannual family support newsletter, builds our community by sharing stories and experiences. Families from all over the world connect […]
Read More ›Cytokinetics and Astellas Announce New Phase 2 Clinical Trial
Cytokinetics and Astellas jointly announced plans to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial in 2015 in patients with spinal muscular atrophy. The trial will test CK-2127107, a muscle activator. CK-2127107 […]
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