December 18, 2019

PPMD Awards $465,000 Grant to The Ohio State University to Rescue Cardiac Dystrophin & Function in Duchenne

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy is excited to announce that Renzhi Han, an associate professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, will receive a $465,000 grant to study the potential use of in vivo…

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October 24, 2019

PPMD Awards $148,000 in Grants to Improve Cardiac Function in Duchenne

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) is excited to announce that Dr. Kan Hor from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Dr. Dongsheng Duan from the University of Missouri received grants to further develop their research into potential…

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October 2, 2019

Duchenne UK and PPMD Award $200,000 Grant to Develop an Accepted Set of Patient Reported Outcomes

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) and Duchenne UK announced the joint funding of a project to create a set of agreed and validated Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) for use in Europe and the US. The…

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September 17, 2019

PPMD Awards University of Florida $1 Million for Novel Gene Therapy Approach Targeting the Heart

As you know, one of PPMD’s priorities in the fight to end Duchenne is maintaining cardiac health and preventing heart disease or dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), better known as heart failure in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Heart…

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April 17, 2019

PPMD Awards $100,000 Grant to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to Further Explore GALGT2 Gene Therapy

PPMD is excited to announce that Drs. Paul Martin and Kevin Flanigan from the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have completed work under a $100,000 grant exploring GALGT2 gene therapy technology as a potential treatment…

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January 24, 2019

PPMD Awards $105,000 Grant to Explore A Mini-Dystrophin Gene Aimed at Protecting Cardiac Function

PPMD is excited to award the University of Missouri School of Medicine a grant for $105,000 to continue development of a minimized dystrophin gene aimed at protecting cardiac function in people with Duchenne. The project is led by Dongsheng…

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December 12, 2018

WATCH: The Heart of PPMD’s Research – Webinar Recording

ICYMI: Yesterday, I had the privilege of hosting an in depth look at PPMD’s cardiac research priorities in Duchenne for 2019. If you were unable to join us live, I hope you will take a…

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January 1, 2015

Eplerenone FAQs — Early Treatment of Cardiomyopathy in Duchenne

Below are a list of FAQs regarding the early treatment of cardiomyopathy in Duchenne using eplerenone. We consulted Dr. Subha Raman of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Dr. Linda Cripe of Nationwide Children’s…

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