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Additional Grants 2019
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ALS - Stanley Appel, MD
Funded: 07/01/18 through 12/30/20Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)“Stanley Appel, MD, co-director of Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, chair of the Stanley H. Appel Department of ...”
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FSHD – Adam Bittel, PT, DPT, PhD
Funded: 06/01/19 through 05/31/21Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH, FSHD)“We are interested in both understanding how exercise affects skeletal muscle in FSHD and identifying the key cellular ev...”
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FSHD – Justin Cohen, PhD
Funded: 04/01/19 through 03/31/21Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH, FSHD)“By emphasizing testing of FDA-approved compounds, the clinical trial pipeline can be sped up, reducing the wait time for...”
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DMD – Rachelle H. Crosbie, PhD
Funded: 06/27/19 through 05/31/21Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)“We hope to identify a pre-clinical candidate that will treat DMD by boosting sarcospan levels. We also want to learn mor...”
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CMT – Michael Shy, PhD
Funded: 02/01/19 through 01/31/22Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT)“Rational clinical trials in CMT with outcome measures that can measure effectiveness are in place and will hopefully lea...”
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DM - Charles Thornton, MD
Funded: 07/01/19 through 06/30/22Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)“The Myotonic Dystrophy Clinical Research Network is a natural extension of 30-plus years’ effort to understand the fun...”
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DMD - Matthew Wood, PhD
Funded: 09/01/19 through 08/31/21Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)“In this project we will investigate the use of exosomes as a method to encapsulate or “hide” AAVs from the immune sy...”
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DM – Locana
Funded: 05/01/19 through 01/31/21Grant Announced: Additional Grants 2019Disease Type: Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)“DM is caused by expression of dysfunctional, repetitive RNA in diseased tissues, where application of Locana’s core RN...”