Research
Cure SMA Funds $2 Million in New Research in 2015-2016
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Awards $304,000 Drug Discovery Grant to Livio Pellizzoni, PhD, at Columbia University
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Receives 2016 NIH Grant
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Releases June 2016 Update to the SMA Drug Pipeline
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. […]
Read More ›Spring 2016 Issue of Compass Now Available
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Awards $300,000 Drug Discovery Grant to Charlotte Sumner, in Collaboration with Imago Pharmaceuticals
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Releases Full Schedule for the 2016 Annual SMA Conference
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Awards $70,000 Grant to Christine DiDonato, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
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 […]
Read More ›AveXis Reports Data from Ongoing Phase 1 Trial of AVXS-101 in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1
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 […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Announces 2016 Family Friendly Poster Session Presenters
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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