Today, CureDuchenne, a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds and awareness for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), announced that on March 19, 2010 the organization’s scientific advisors from around the country will come together in the fight to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
“We know that the path to a cure starts with collaboration”
The group of ten includes world-class scientists coming together for the chance to sit with each other and share new strategies around finding a cure for DMD, a disease that is the leading genetic killer of children, affecting more than 20,000 boys in the US.
“We know that the path to a cure starts with collaboration,” said CureDuchenne co-founder Debra Miller. “By bringing together ten of the world’s most forward-thinking scientists, researchers and drug development experts in the field of DMD research, we hope to be able to best identify the strategy necessary to move treatment options into the human clinical trial stage. We’re racing the clock to save our boys, and if there ever was a group capable of finding a cure, it’s this one.”
The inaugural DMD Summit will include these muscle disease and drug development experts::