Peter Jones, associate professor in cell and developmental biology and neurology at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, was awarded an MDA research grant totaling $300,000 over a period of three years to develop a research mouse model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Please describe your current research. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is one . . .
Marathon Pharmaceuticals announced today it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the investigational drug deflazacort for the treatment of people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The FDA has 60 days to determine whether the NDA is complete and acceptable for filing. Deflazacort, a glucocorticoid, works . . .
Results from a phase 3 trial to test eculizumab in patients with refractory generalized myasthenia gravis (MG) show that the drug did not have a statistically significant effect on the primary endpoint — the Myasthenia Gravis – Activities of Daily Living profile (MG-ADL), a patient-reported index of daily living assessment. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is . . .
Once you open up to the idea that there just might still be some good in the world, and in your life, you begin to see it. It may seem small and insignificant, at least at first. But if it’s good, notice it. Acknowledge it. Give thanks for it. ~Patty Blake We’d like to take . . .
Kim Staats, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, was awarded an MDA development grant totaling $180,000 over a period of three years to study potential causes for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Using a cutting-edge approach to identify genetic contributors in sporadic ALS, Staats has found a new gene . . .
The investigational drug omigapil, under development by Santhera Pharmaceuticals, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Fast Track designation for the treatment of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). Preclinical studies in disease models have shown the drug inhibits cell death and reduces body weight loss and skeletal deformation while increasing mobility and improving . . .
Kathrin Meyer, a postdoctoral researcher at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, was awarded an MDA development grant totaling $180,000 over three years to study the roles of cell types other than motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Please describe your current research. For a long time, ALS research focused mainly on the motor . . .
Claudio Hetz, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Chile, was awarded an MDA research grant totaling $294,000 over a period of three years to study a potential new therapy aimed at rescuing motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In ALS, some proteins do not fold into their required shape . . .
Researchers are looking for people with type 1A Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A) to participate in a new pivotal phase 3 clinical trial of the investigational drug PXT3003. The trial aims to determine whether PXT3003 is effective and well-tolerated in people with CMT1A. PXT3003 is an oral low-dose combination of three different drugs designed to target the . . .
Researchers at The Ohio State University are looking for adults, ages 18 years or older, with paramyotonia congenita to participate in a phase 2 open-label study being sponsored by Gilead Science to test the experimental drug ranolazine. Ranolazine currently is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat chest pain in people with . . .
