Dr. Jim Collins at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) will launch a 1 year trial, Jan/2010- Dec/2010, to identify biomarkers in Merosin Deficient CMD (MDC1A). Dr. Collins and Dr. Carsten Bonnemann at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will enroll infants and children, 0-10 years, with Merosin Deficient CMD.
Contact: Shengyong Hu or Paula Morehart (Division of Neurology, [...]
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Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
A group of diseases causing muscle weakness at birth. Several defined genetic mutations cause muscles to break down faster than they can repair or grow. A child with CMD may have various neurological or physical impairments. Some children never gain the ability to walk, while others lose the ability as they grow older. Learn more...-
Events
- Endostem and Optistem: First Annual Consortium Meeting
- 27 March 2010
- Aidan's All Star Outing
- 21 April 2010
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Cure CMD Team runs/walks NJ Marathon
- 2 May 2010
- Long Branch, New Jersey
- Ottawa Conference on New Directions in Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle
- 5 May 2010
- CMD Physiotherapy Motor Outcome Measure Meeting
- 14 May 2010
- Endostem and Optistem: First Annual Consortium Meeting
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