We will be posting a series of summaries from our 2014 researcher meeting, highlighting some of the most interesting new developments and discoveries presented there. This is the third of four total updates, and the first of two in drug discovery and clinical trials. This summary was written by Cure SMA Scientific Advisory Board member
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We are proud to announce Scott Geller, who chaired the Chesapeake Chapter Golf Outing for fourteen years, as the first ever recipient of the Annual Community Partnership Award. The award was presented at The Annual SMA Conference this June in Washington D.C. Scott first attended the Chesapeake Chapter Golf Outing as a guest. Scott was
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We will be posting a series of summaries from our 2014 researcher meeting, highlighting some of the most interesting new developments and discoveries presented there. This is the second of four total updates, and the second of two in basic research. This summary was written by Cure SMA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) member Samuel Pfaff,
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Earlier this year, we announced that our 2015 Annual SMA Conference will be held in Kansas City. We’ll be opening registration for the conference in just a few weeks. In the meantime, read on for a little more about the city and the hotel where our conference will be held. Then, get ready for the
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We will be posting a series of summaries from our 2014 researcher meeting, highlighting some of the most interesting new developments and discoveries presented there. This is the first of four total updates, and the first of two in basic research. This summary was written by Cure SMA Scientific Advisory Board member Adrian Krainer PhD,
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We’re so excited to be the Groupon Coupon charity of the day for the #GrouponSaysThanks campaign! Shop at Groupon today and you’ll help support Cure SMA.
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Cure SMA recently announced the formation of the Subcommittee on Adult Outreach. This group will work to actively engage the adult SMA community in order to effectively support them. The population of adults with SMA is increasing, so this new subcommittee will play a vital role in shaping our programs in 2015 and beyond. Initially,
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Today, Isis released results from their Phase II open-label clinical trials of ISIS-SMNRx. These results covered two separate trials: a trial in infants with SMA type I, and a trial in children with SMA type II. Isis previously announced recruitment for a Phase III trial of infants with SMA type I. This is the first-ever
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On Thursday, October 2, Jennifer Miller Smith and Fiorenna Fuentes Israel, two dedicated mothers of children with SMA, planned an evening to be remembered in their quest to achieve a huge fundraising milestone: $500,000 to cure spinal muscular atrophy. This year’s event, the 4th Annual Gala of Hope, has already raised $110,000 and climbing, bringing
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AveXis, Inc., a clinic-stage gene therapy company, today announced the completion of dosing in the low dose cohort in the world’s first human gene therapy trial for the treatment of infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The trial (NCT02122952) opened for enrollment in April 2014. “History in gene transfer therapy was made on May 13th,
