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Cure SMA Announces Increase in Basic Research Funding, Now Exceeding $1 Million in Grants
We are excited to announce that two additional grants have been added to this round of basic research funding, which brings the total to $1.03 million in grants for this […]
Read More ›Update on the Passage of the AHCA
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The House passed legislation included an amendment that increases funding to mitigate a potential rise in health care […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Grassroots Alert – AHCA
After a failed attempt in March, Members of Congress are trying once again to assemble legislation to repeal key parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Christine DiDonato, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
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 […]
Read More ›Biogen Releases New Data from Cherish and Nurture Trials
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 […]
Read More ›SMA Community’s Voice Heard “Loud and Clear” at Last Week’s Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting with the FDA
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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