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October 10, 2008: Helping the fight against muscular dystrophy
Bedford, Mass. -- Daniel Perez has been fighting muscular dystrophy his entire life and has been fighting for something else – national funds and attention for a form of muscular dystrophy.
Recently, his efforts paid off.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $9 million to launch a unique collaboration of researchers, clinicians, patients, government research agencies and pharmaceutical/biomedical companies to study the causes and potential treatments for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a muscle weakening disabling disease. The award will create the first Senator Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center (MD CRC) to focus on FSHD. Read more
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