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SMA Documentary Premieres at 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival
Life & Atrophy, a film about SMA, premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival on Saturday, August 12th. It was directed, produced, edited and photographed by Gareth Burghes. The […]
Read More ›Cure SMA-Funded Researchers, Diane Murrell and Deborah Boroughs, Publish Papers
Two Cure SMA-funded projects have recently been published. Diane Murrell and her team published the paper, “The Experience of Families With Children With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type I Across Health […]
Read More ›2017 Researcher Meeting Summary: Regulation of Splicing and SMN Protein Expression
The Annual SMA Researcher Meeting is the largest research meeting in the world specifically focused on SMA. This year we had a record setting 470 attendees. The goal of the […]
Read More ›Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Survey
On August 3rd, as part of multiple days of advocacy visits, Cure SMA staff met with leaders from the Medicare division of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). […]
Read More ›Roche Opens US Recruitment for Phase 2 Clinical Trial
Roche has opened enrollment in the US on one of their two Phase 2 clinical trials testing RO7034067 (also known as RG7916). Late last year, Roche first announced plans to […]
Read More ›SMA Families and Cure SMA Staff Visit Capitol Hill for Advocacy Efforts
On August 2nd, members of the spinal muscular atrophy community kicked off SMA Awareness Month by meeting with a dozen Senate and House congressional offices to advocate for issues that […]
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