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Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Christine DiDonato, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

May 1, 2017
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Cure SMA has awarded a $140,000 research grant to Christine DiDonato, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, for her project, “Skeletal muscle activators as potential modulators […]

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Biogen Releases New Data from Cherish and Nurture Trials

April 24, 2017
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Biogen will present Phase 3 end of study SPINRAZA® (nusinersen) data from CHERISH, which demonstrated a highly statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in motor function in children with later-onset […]

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SMA Community’s Voice Heard “Loud and Clear” at Last Week’s Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting with the FDA

April 23, 2017
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On April 18, 2017, the SMA community—families, clinicians, researchers, industry and regulators—gathered for a Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) Meeting with the FDA. As part of the reauthorization of the Prescription […]

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Cure SMA to Host Webinar on Spinraza Access, as List of Administration Sites is Released

April 21, 2017
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On Thursday, May 4, at 1:00pm EST (10:00am PST/11:00am MST/12:00pm CST), Cure SMA will hold a webinar updating the community on the status of Spinraza access. Among the topics covered […]

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Recommends Granting Marketing Authorization in the European Union for Spinraza

April 21, 2017
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting a marketing authorization in the European Union (EU) for Spinraza. The recommendation indicates that Spinraza should be covered for all types of […]

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Cure SMA Awards $75,000 Grant to Jean Giacomotto, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia

April 10, 2017
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Cure SMA has awarded a $75,000 research grant to Jean Giacomotto, PhD, at the University of Queensland, for his project, “Zebrafish models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy optimized for chemical genetics […]

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