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Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Rashmi Kothary, MD, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Cure SMA has awarded a $140,000 research grant to Rashmi Kothary, MD, at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute for his project, ” Muscle satellite cell biology and muscle regeneration in […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Megerditch Kiledjian, PhD, of Rutgers
Cure SMA has awarded a $140,000 research grant to Megerditch Kiledjian, PhD, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, for his project, “Novel Strategies to Increase SMN2 RNA.” Because […]
Read More ›Senate HELP Committee Passes Innovation Bills
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has passed 7 bills out of committee as part of its “step-by-step” approach to Innovation and 21st Century Cures. Among them […]
Read More ›Update on 21st Century Cures/Innovation: the Senate’s “Step-by-Step” Approach
Cure SMA has been carefully monitoring the consideration of 21st Century Cures on Capitol Hill. As you know, the House passed legislation in July last year, but the Senate has […]
Read More ›Cure SMA-Funded Researcher Publishes Paper on Biomarker Study
Cure SMA-funded researcher Stephen Kolb has published a paper in the journal Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. This paper reported on the baseline results from an ongoing biomarker and […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Testifies Before FDA at PDUFA Meeting
The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), the law that allows the FDA to collect fees from drug manufacturers to fund the new drug approval process, is set to expire […]
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