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MIAMI, Feb. 5, 2016 — Sailormen Inc., one of the largest domestic franchisees of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants, launched its 14th annual “Appetite for a Cure” campaign on Feb. 1 that will raise critical funds and awareness to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association find urgently needed treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that severely limit strength and mobility.

Robert W. Burgess, a professor at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, is conducting MDA-funded research that may lead to a new therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). With co-investigator Scott Q. Harper, associate professor at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Gene Therapy in Columbus, Ohio, Burgess is testing an AAV gene therapy approach to specifically block the altered form of the GARS gene in a newly developed mouse model for the type 2D form of CMT.