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Jun 22, 2013
WNT/β-catenin signaling suppresses DUX4 expression and prevents apoptosis of FSHD muscle cells
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Jun 7, 2013
Magnetic resonance imaging shows short tau-inversion recovery (STIR) brightness in autosomal dominant FSHD1 suggestive of active inflammation/injury.
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Apr 19, 2013
Friends of FSH Research exists to encourage, promote and fund increased scientific and clinical research of FSHD to help advance the study and understanding of the disease, with the goals of identifying treatments and, ultimately, a cure. We invite you to submit a proposal for research that advances these goals.
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Apr 18, 2013
Nature Journals Aim to Improve Reproducibility.
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Apr 10, 2013
Friends of FSH Research announced a $7,500 FLEX Fund Grant awarded to Silvère van der Maarel, PhD in order to help fund the purchase of an in-situ muscle testing system.
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Apr 4, 2013
New mouse models which recapitulate several important aspects of FSHD are discussed.
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Mar 28, 2013
A French language presentation of excerpts from the exposition "FSH, the other myopathy" in March and April.
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Mar 6, 2013
An ex vivo gene therapy approach to treat muscular dystrophy using inducible pluripotent stem cells.
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Feb 25, 2013
Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education (MD CARE) Amendments Act of 2013.
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Feb 20, 2013
By preventing DUX4 from being upregulated during muscle formation, we may be able to prevent further muscle wasting in patients with the disease.
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Feb 6, 2013
Using model organisms to identify new therapies and to understand the pathogenesis of FSHD.
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Feb 6, 2013
New findings about DUX4 have raised as many fundamental questions about the molecular pathology of this unique disease as they have answered.
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Feb 6, 2013
Notice of Upcoming Funding Opportunity: Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortia.
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Feb 6, 2013
Michael Kyba Receives MDA Grant to Study Muscle Developmental Deficits in FSHD.
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Feb 6, 2013
Final progress update from FSH Scholar Barbara Page.
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Nov 28, 2012
The primary cause of FSHD is abnormal activation of the Dux4 gene, so mouse models need to reproduce production of Dux4.
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Nov 11, 2012
Friends of FSH Research has helped fund another ground breaking project that has shed new light on the mechanism of muscle damage in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, and suggests new targets for treatment.
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Oct 22, 2012
The milestones for year one were to perform an initial screen for Platform 1 and prepare and validate Platform 2.
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Sep 6, 2012
The chemicals Dr Kyba’s group has identified may help us to understand the chemical pathways that can indirectly inhibit the muscle toxicity associated with the DUX4 gene.
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Aug 3, 2012
Today, we are very excited to report that the research team is working to find compounds that will impact DUX4 and allow FSH muscle cells to survive.