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Spotlight Innovation Launches Development of STL-182 to Treat SMA
Spotlight Innovation has obtained an exclusive, worldwide license to STL-182, a novel compound invented by Drs. Elliot Androphy at Indiana University and Kevin Hodgetts, director of the Laboratory for Drug […]
Read More ›6th Annual Congressional Dinner Furthers SMA Advocacy Work
This year’s 6th Annual “Hope on the Hill” Congressional Dinner will be held on Tuesday, November 29, bringing together families, government, and industry for an important evening of collaboration. We […]
Read More ›Cure SMA-funded Researcher Sara Custer Publishes Paper
Sara Custer, PhD, and her colleagues at Indiana University have published a new paper, “Altered mRNA Splicing in SMN-Depleted Motor Neuron-Like Cells” in the journal PLOS ONE . The research […]
Read More ›SMA Community is Granted a Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting with the FDA
Cure SMA is excited to announce that the SMA community has been granted a Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting with the FDA. At the Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD) Meeting, […]
Read More ›Cure SMA and Ionis Announce 2016 Holiday Card Contest
Back by popular demand, Cure SMA and Ionis Pharmaceuticals are once again teaming up for a holiday card contest! This contest is open to children with spinal muscular atrophy, their […]
Read More ›AveXis Reports Interim Data from Ongoing Phase 1 Clinical Trial of AVXS-101 at the World Muscle Society Congress
AveXis, Inc., a clinical-stage gene therapy company developing treatments for patients suffering from rare and life-threatening neurological genetic diseases, today provided an update on interim data from the ongoing Phase […]
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