Research

Cure SMA Funds $2 Million in New Research in 2015-2016

June 18, 2016
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Over the past few months, Cure SMA has announced a total of just over $2 million in new research funding. Our model is designed to […]

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Cure SMA Awards $304,000 Drug Discovery Grant to Livio Pellizzoni, PhD, at Columbia University

June 13, 2016
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Cure SMA has awarded a $304,000 drug discovery grant to Livio Pellizzoni, PhD, at Columbia University. The award is for the project, “Pharmacological Inhibition of […]

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Cure SMA Receives 2016 NIH Grant

June 10, 2016
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For the eighth consecutive year, Cure SMA has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the SMA Researcher Meeting. This year’s […]

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Cure SMA Releases June 2016 Update to the SMA Drug Pipeline

June 7, 2016
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We’ve recently released an update to the SMA drug pipeline. This latest version includes: 18 active programs. 14 pharmaceutical partners. 6 programs in clinical trials. […]

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Spring 2016 Issue of Compass Now Available

May 26, 2016
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The Spring 2016 issue of Compass is now available online. As part of our most recent round of funding, we’ve announced eight grants totaling $890,000 […]

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Cure SMA Awards $300,000 Drug Discovery Grant to Charlotte Sumner, in Collaboration with Imago Pharmaceuticals

May 25, 2016
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Cure SMA has awarded a $300,000 drug discovery grant to Charlotte Sumner, MD, at Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with Imago Pharmaceuticals. The award is […]

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Cure SMA Releases Full Schedule for the 2016 Annual SMA Conference

May 19, 2016
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Cure SMA has released the full schedule for the 2016 Annual SMA Conference, which will be held in Anaheim, CA at Disneyland, June 16-19. The […]

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Cure SMA Awards $70,000 Grant to Christine DiDonato, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

May 17, 2016
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Cure SMA has awarded a $70,000 research grant to Dr. Christine DiDonato at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for her project, “Assessing mediators of muscle […]

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AveXis Reports Data from Ongoing Phase 1 Trial of AVXS-101 in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1

May 6, 2016
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Today, AveXis, Inc. presented an interim analysis of data as of April 1, 2016 from the ongoing Phase 1 trial of AVXS-101 for the treatment […]

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Cure SMA Announces 2016 Family Friendly Poster Session Presenters

May 2, 2016
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The Family Friendly Research Poster Session is one of the most anticipated events of our Annual SMA Conference. Each year, Cure SMA invites researchers from […]

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