Research
Cure SMA Awards $140,000 Grant to Sara Custer, PhD, of Indiana University
Audrey Lewis founded Families of SMA, now Cure SMA, 30 years ago. Audrey recognized early on the importance of attracting new and talented researchers to […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Announces New $50,000 Care Research Grant to Rebecca Davis in the Lab of Dr. Swoboda at University of Utah
Cure SMA has awarded a $50,000 clinical care grant to Rebecca Hurst Davis in the lab of Dr. Kathy Swoboda, for her project focusing on […]
Read More ›Cytokinetics and Astellas Announce New Phase 2 Clinical Trial
Cytokinetics and Astellas jointly announced plans to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial in 2015 in patients with spinal muscular atrophy. The trial will test […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Announces New $50,000 Clinical Care Research Grant to Nilesh Mehta at Boston Children’s Hospital
We’re excited to announce that we have awarded $50,000 clinical care grant to Dr. Nilesh Mehta, for his project focusing on nutrition in SMA. Some […]
Read More ›Results Published on First Large Animal Model of SMA
Dr. Arthur Burghes, a Cure SMA Scientific Advisory Board Member from Ohio State University, has published a paper on the first-ever large animal model of […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Funding Leads to 16 New Research Publications in 2014
An important goal of our research funding strategy is to share scientific findings with the broader scientific community. Scientists who receive Cure SMA funding often […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Funds 26 Research Projects in 2014
Our strategic research approach includes four areas—basic research, drug discovery, clinical trials, and clinical care—working together toward our vision of a world without SMA. Cure […]
Read More ›Isis Expands Phase 3 Clinical Trials
Isis recently announced that they have tested the first patient in CHERISH, a multi-center Phase 3 clinical study evaluating the efficacy and safety of the […]
Read More ›SMA Drug Pipeline Continues to Grow
This is an exciting time for the entire SMA community, as we celebrate another year of increasing momentum toward our goal of a treatment and […]
Read More ›Cure SMA Researchers Present at Society for Neuroscience Meeting
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Meeting is the premiere neurobiology meeting, with over 30,000 scientists in attendance each year. This year’s meeting was held November […]
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