• Understanding Duchenne
• Caring
  for Him
• Advancing
  Research
• Leading
  the Way
• Ending
  Duchenne
• Uniting the Community

• About Duchenne
  • About Dystrophin + Utrophin
  • Signs of Duchenne
  • How to Prevent Duchenne
  • Who Gets Duchenne
  • What Causes Duchenne
  • How Duchenne is Identified
  • How Duchenne Progresses
• New Diagnosis
  • First Steps
  • What You Can Do
  • Parenting Children with Duchenne
  • Finding Support
• Stages of
  Duchenne
  • Early Phase
  • Transitional Phase
  • Loss of Ambulation
  • Adult Stage
• For Family
  Members
  • Parents
  • Brothers + Sisters
  • Grandparents
  • Relatives + Friends
• For
  Professionals
  • Teachers
  • Physical Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Researchers

Researchers

Research is crucial to PPMD’s goal of ending Duchenne. PPMD leads the Duchenne community in advocacy, funding, and community building. We bring together money, patients, and professionals where they can all be the most effective.

PPMD is the only muscular dystrophy research organization:

• To invest in a broad research portfolio.
• To explore short-, mid-, and long-term treatments and therapies.
• To leverage $200 million into research centers and $22 million into Duchenne-specific programs at the Centers for Disease Control.
• To leverage $15.4 million from the National Institute of Health (NIH) into PPMD’s drug discovery program.

In early 2008, PPMD launched the DuchenneConnect, which brings together all members of the Duchenne community: patients, families, and medical and research professionals.

What We Are Funding
Advancing Research
Understanding Duchenne
DuchenneConnect