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The Miller McNeil Woodruff Foundation Makes a Generous Contribution to Cure SMA
The Miller McNeil Woodruff Foundation awarded $87,000 to Cure SMA, in order to further research that will lead to a treatment and cure for SMA. Their gift will also help fund continued […]
Read More ›Cure SMA-Funded Researcher, Chad Heatwole, Publishes Paper on Clinical Trial Outcomes in Adults with SMA
Cure SMA-funded researcher, Chad Heatwole, and his team, have published a paper, “What Matters Most: A Perspective From Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patients”. This project was a pilot study funded […]
Read More ›Annual Congressional Dinner Brings SMA Community Together on the Eve of 21st Century Cure Bill Passage
On Tuesday, November 29, more than 160 people from the SMA community – including government and industry partners – gathered for the 6th Annual “Hope on the Hill” Congressional Dinner. […]
Read More ›Annual South Florida Gala of Hope Raises over $1 Million in 6 Years
The 6th annual Cure SMA South Florida Chapter Gala of Hope raised a record amount of $310,000 on November 17th. Total funds raised by the gala now exceed $1 million in its six […]
Read More ›Help Us Shape the Future Together, and Reach our Goal of $750,000
This has been an historic year for the SMA community. On October 28, our pharmaceutical partners at Biogen and Ionis announced that their New Drug Application for Spinraza (nusinersen) was […]
Read More ›Over 35 Cure SMA-Funded Researchers Contribute to Comprehensive SMA Encyclopedia
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Disease Mechanisms and Therapy, the first comprehensive encyclopedia of SMA, has been published by Elsevier. Over thirty five of the book’s authors currently are or have been […]
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