Other Myopathies

Competition Solves Genetic Mystery for Boy with CNM

Update (Dec. 4, 2012):This story was updated to reflect that the 13 previously identified genes that were tested as potentially associated with Adam Foye's disease were genes for various disorders that cause muscle weakness, not just centronuclear myopathy. Including titin, there are five genes now known to be associated with CNM.

MDA Commits $10.7 Million to Neuromuscular Disease Research

The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded 33 new grants totaling $10,684,481 to fund research projects focused on uncovering the causes of, and developing therapies for, neuromuscular disease.

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 Aug. 1.

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Myopathies — Beggs

Alan Beggs, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Children's Hospital Boston, has been awarded an MDA grant totaling $396,990 over three years. The funds will help support Beggs' research on the molecular genetics of congenital myopathies.

Study of Progression in CNM/MTM, CCD, Multiminicore Disease Is Open

Investigators at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are conducting a study of the progression of centronuclear myopathies (CNMs), including the type known as myotubular myopathy (MTM); central core disease (CCD) and multiminicore disease. The study is intended to:

MDA Commits $12 Million to Neuromuscular Disease Research

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.

Periodic Paralysis Research Mouse Developed

MDA grantee Stephen Cannon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas coordinated a study team that has developed a mouse model of one type of hypokalemic periodic paralysis, publishing the development in the Oct. 3, 2011, issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Dichlorphenamide Being Tested in Periodic Paralysis

A multicenter study of the drug dichlorphenamide in 140 adults with hyperkalemic or hypokalemic periodic paralysis is open at sites in California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Texas, as well as in France (not yet recruiting), Italy and the United Kingdom. 

MDA Awards $13.7 Million in Research Grants

The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded 40 research grants totaling $13.7 million to advance the understanding of disease processes and uncover new strategies for treatments and cures of muscular dystrophy and the more than 40 other diseases in the Association's program.

The new grants were recommended by MDA's Scientific and Medical Advisory Committees and approved by MDA's Board of Directors at its July 2011 meeting.

Periodic Paralysis Conference Connects Experts, Families

The 2011 Periodic Paralysis Association Conference will be held Nov. 4-6 in Orlando, Fla., and is geared toward people with periodic paralysis (PP), their families, physicians and friends.

This is not an MDA meeting, but several current and former MDA research grantees will be speaking. Among them are:

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