MDA Commits $12 Million to Neuromuscular Disease Research
Quest Magazine | February 1, 2012 | By Amy Labbe
The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded 38 new grants totaling more than $12 million to fund research projects focused on its continuing mission to uncover the causes of, and develop therapies for, the more than 40 neuromuscular diseases in its program.
MDA’s Board of Directors reviewed and approved the new grants based on recommendations from the Association’s Scientific and Medical Advisory Committees, and the grants took effect Feb. 1.
Recent scientific advances have led to increased funding in promising new areas of research, including development of therapies that not only slow and stop neuromuscular diseases, but also reverse damage caused by the disease processes. The goal in many of the projects is to develop new therapies or to make current therapies better.
“It is exciting that several of these new basic research projects are focused on the development of new therapeutic strategies,” noted MDA Vice President of Research Sanjay Bidichandani.
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