Today, Dr. Eric Olson spoke at the UT Southwestern Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Symposium. He presented promising pre-clinical data about gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 for Duchenne. […]
CureDuchenne hosted a live Twitter chat on September 20 to raise awareness and address the important issues facing the Duchenne community. It was an opportunity to hear from patients, parents, […]
CureDuchenne is hosting a Twitter chat #DuchenneChat on September 20 at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT to raise awareness and address the important issues facing the Duchenne community. This Twitter […]
Dr. Kevin Flanigan from Nationwide Children’s Hospital provided an update on his Dup2 research during a CureDuchenne hosted call with families on September 6. Back in 2010, Dr. Flanigan told […]
Duchenne organizations are invited to fund CRISPR/Cas9 research at Exonics Therapeutics in a venture philanthropy collaboration. We are making progress on treatments for Duchenne, but a cure is the goal […]
Academia has long been an incubating source of incredible medical breakthroughs. Sometimes it takes a little push and risk-taking to take that progressive research out of the lab and into […]
Five years ago, 12-year-old Alex Chiabai was one of the first boy in Canada to begin taking drisapersen, a promising drug that provided a glimmer of hope for Alex and […]
CureDuchenne is pleased to see that the FDA will hold an Advisory Committee Meeting (AdCom) for PTC Therapeutics’s drug Ataluren. We are hopeful for a full and fair review which […]
For Doug Penner, now 14, being part of the original drisapersen trial was a hopeful time; the drug enabled him to go on four-mile walks, climb stairs and even jump. […]
