SOLVE FSHD 4件の助成金を交付
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FSHDの治療薬開発を支援するカナダのベンチャー団体 SOLVE FSHD 。新たに4件の共同研究に総額140万米ドル(約1億9,600万円)の助成金を交付したとニュースリリースで発表しました。
(ニュースリリース、英文)SOLVE FSHD Announces New Collaborative Research Grants to Accelerate Novel Potential Therapeutics for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)(外部のサイトを開きます)
Dr. Scott Harper (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Robert Grange (Virginia Tech) for their project to assess skeletal muscle torque as a functional outcome measure in the TIC-DUX4 mouse model of FSHD
Dr. Ali Ozes (Altay Therapeutics) and Drs. Jeff and Joel Chamberlain (University of Washington School of Medicine) for their project investigating the effect of STAT3 inhibitors on muscle pathology and fibrosis in a preclinical model of FSHD
Drs. Darren Hwee and Michael Coronado (Cytokinetics) and Dr. Peter Jones (University of Nevada, Reno) for their study to assess whether Fast Skeletal Muscle Troponin Activators (FSTAs) can improve muscle function in preclinical models of FSHD
Dr. Peter Zammit (King’s College London), Drs. Fabio Rossi and Martin Hirst (University of British Columbia) for their project on defining the epigenomic landscape in FSHD and the role of fibroadipogenic progenitor cells in FSHD
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