CureSMA Awards $140,000 to University Professor for Research into SMN Protein
Cure SMA has just awarded Ohio State University’s Christine Beattie, Ph.D., a $140,000 basic research funding grant for her…
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2016 SMA Researcher Meeting Receives Record Number of Abstract Submissions
This year’s SMA Researcher Meeting received a record number of abstract submissions, totaling 118 contributions from 14 countries, six different companies,…
Key SMA Patient Trial of Skeletal Muscle Activator Getting Underway
Cytokinetics has announced additional details about a planned Phase 2 clinical trial of CK-2127107 in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Obese Children With SMA May Be at Risk for Insulin Resistance, Glucose Intolerance
Scientists granted initial funding worth $50,000 from Cure SMA recently published a study that found obese children suffering from SMA Type…
Cure SMA 2015 Researcher Meeting Session Summary: SMN Partners and Candidate Therapeutic Targets
Cure SMA, one of the country’s leading not-for-profit organizations committed to find a cure for spinal muscular atrophy and improve the…
Cure SMA’s 2015 Researcher Meeting: New Born Screening
Studies conducted on mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have led scientists to believe that it is imperative to…
Cure SMA Plans to Award Nearly $2 Million in Research Grants
Cure SMA, an organization committed to fund and direct comprehensive research that drives breakthroughs in treatment and care for SMA patients, has…
SMA Patient Adyn Bucher Hosts Benefit Rock Concert
A 10-year-old child born with spinal muscular atrophy is throwing a benefit concert in support of everyone living with this rare, genetic…