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Record Number of Abstracts Submitted for the 2016 SMA Researcher Meeting
Abstract submission is now closed for the 2016 SMA Researcher Meeting. We are excited to announce that we received 118 submissions, a record number. Our submissions come from researchers in […]
Read More ›Senate HELP Committee Passes Another 7 Innovation Bills
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee yesterday passed an additional 7 bills out of committee. Along with the 7 bills previously passed out of committee, that makes […]
Read More ›Winter 2015 Issue of Directions Now Online
The Winter 2015 issue of Directions is now available! Please visit our Support & Care Publications page to download this issue or past issues of Directions. Our biannual newsletter builds […]
Read More ›Cure SMA-Funded Researchers Publish Paper on Motor Neuron and Astrocyte Defects
Cure SMA-funded researcher Chien-Ping Ko has published a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, called “Defects in Motoneuron–Astrocyte Interactions in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.” The research for this paper was supported […]
Read More ›Patients and Caregivers of Patients with Type II and III SMA Needed for Educational Research Survey
I am a medical education researcher fielding a survey to individuals or caregivers of individuals with Type II or III spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) to understand their specific challenges as […]
Read More ›2016 Annual SMA Conference on Track to Break Attendance Records
Registration for the Annual SMA Conference is well on its way to a record-setting number. Over 700 families and researchers have registered for the conference thus far—the highest number to […]
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