The SMA Researcher Meeting is the largest research meeting in the world specifically focused on SMA. This year we had a record setting 350 attendees. The goal of the meeting is to create open communication of early, unpublished scientific data, accelerating the pace of research. The meeting also furthers research by building productive collaborations—including cross-disciplinary […]

The SMA Researcher Meeting is the largest research meeting in the world specifically focused on SMA. This year we had a record setting 350 attendees. The goal of the meeting is to create open communication of early, unpublished scientific data, accelerating the pace of research. The meeting also furthers research by building productive collaborations—including cross-disciplinary

The SMA Researcher Meeting is the largest research meeting in the world specifically focused on SMA. This year we had a record setting 350 attendees. The goal of the meeting is to create open communication of early, unpublished scientific data, accelerating the pace of research. The meeting also furthers research by building productive collaborations—including cross-disciplinary

The SMA Researcher Meeting is the largest research meeting in the world specifically focused on SMA. This year we had a record setting 350 attendees. The goal of the meeting is to create open communication of early, unpublished scientific data, accelerating the pace of research. The meeting also furthers research by building productive collaborations—including cross-disciplinary

During the 2016 SMA Researcher Meeting, the anniversary of the identification of the SMN genes by Judith Melki MD, PhD (Inserm, Universite Paris) was recognized. Genetic studies of families with a history of SMA allowed researchers to localize the region containing the gene responsible for SMA to the long arm of chromosome 5 in 1992.

We will be posting a series of summaries from our 2016 researcher meeting, highlighting some of the most interesting new developments and discoveries presented there. This update covers a session on clinical research and outcome measures. The goal of this session is to present the results of important studies that could influence clinical trial design