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February 26, 2020 A Sincere Thank You With heartfelt thanks and sincere gratitude we would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their very generous support in 2019.
September 16, 2019 Courtney Young, Ph.D., CEO of MyoGeneBio, Receives Grant from MDA Twenty-five research grants totaling more than $6.6 million have been awarded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to support studies into the mechanisms of neuromuscular diseases, including Duchenne and other muscular dystrophies.
July 31, 2019 Drs. Melissa Spencer and April Pyle Are Awarded a $175,000 Grant from PPMD. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) is excited to announce that Drs. Melissa Spencer and April Pyle from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) is the recipient of a $175,000 grant to continue their work optimizing a CRISPR/Cas9 platform to treat people living with Duchenne.
July 31, 2019 Dr. Carrie Miceli is Awarded a $100,000 Grant from PPMD. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy is excited to announce that Dr. Carrie Miceli at the Center forDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA is the recipient of a $100,000 Grant to Map the Immune Phenotype in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
July 31, 2019 Dr. Rachelle Crosbie is Awarded $389K from MDA The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) awarded $389,000 in funding to Dr. Rachelle Crosbie, Professor and Chair of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA.
September 05, 2018 UCLA Researchers Have Paper Published in “Human Mutation” Journal This is a collaboration between the laboratories of Dr. Stanley Nelson and Dr. Carrie Miceli. This paper has also been selected as an Editor’s Choice article.
August 14, 2018 Postdoc in the Miceli Lab discuss in a review of the literature, the advent of personalized medicine for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Florian Barthélémy, Ph.D., a postdoc at UCLA in the Miceli Lab, and Nicolas Wein, Ph.D., a former Ph.D. colleague, now an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University published a review discussing the recent advancements and the remaining challenges in the gene and cell therapy field for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
July 18, 2017 UCLA Student and His Sister Write Children’s Book About Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy In this new children’s book, readers will meet Dan, an up-beat boy who loves to have a blast. And like many young boys, he was born with duchenne muscular dystrophy.
July 18, 2017 Researchers in the Crosbie-Watson Lab Identify a Muscle Membrane “Stabilizer” for Duchenne Dr. Elizabeth Gibbs and colleagues published a paper showing that overexpression of sarcospan prevents many of the dystrophic changes associated with Duchenne.
June 06, 2017 Courtney Young Receives Prestigious Awards Congratulations to Courtney Young for Receiving Four Prestigious Awards!
June 05, 2017 Kevin Campbell Presents Seminar at UCLA Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D., presents seminar at UCLA on “Structural Basis of Dystroglycan Function: Implications for Membrane Integrity and Muscle Disease.”
May 11, 2017 CDMD Announces Awardees for the 2017 Pilot and Feasibility Grant We would like to recognize the following recipients for the 2017 Pilot and Feasibility Seed Grant Award. Congratulations, we look forward to seeing your exciting studies progress!
April 26, 2017 Dr. Stanley Nelson and His Work in Solving Rare Diseases Important work is being done on behalf of patients with undiagnosed diseases highlights the notable efforts of Dr. Stanley Nelson, Co-Director of the CDMD.
April 05, 2017 Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Training Program The Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA Requests New Applications for Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Training Program
August 15, 2016 Open Postdoctoral Fellow Position Open Postdoctoral Fellow Position
July 26, 2016 Duchenne research funded UCLA’s cutting-edge Duchenne muscular dystrophy research funded by California’s stem cell agency
May 18, 2016 Training Program in Muscle Cell Biology, Pathogenesis, and Therapeutics receives a new NIH T32 Training Grant We are excited to announce that our Training Program in Muscle Cell Biology, Pathogenesis, and Therapeutics has received a new NIH T32 Training Grant.
April 20, 2016 Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Training Program The UCLA Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Requests New Applications for Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Training Program Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Positions Available
April 01, 2016 April Pyle, Ph.D. awarded the 2015-16 Life Sciences Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Publication Dr. April Pyle has been awarded the 2015-16 Life Sciences Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Publication for the paper, A Single CRISPR-Cas9 Deletion Strategy that Targets the Majority of DMD Patients Restores Dystrophin Function in hiPSC-Derived Muscle Cells.
March 01, 2016 Courtney Young raising awareness for Duchenne at Grad Slam Event. Losing the academic jargon, Grad Slam contestants learn to communicate more broadly about their research
February 16, 2016 UCLA researchers discover potential treatment for Muscular Dystrophy April Pyle, Courtney Young, and Melissa Spencer have discovered a potential treatment for Muscular Dystrophy.
January 12, 2016 Elizabeth McNally from Northwestern University to speak at UCLA Dr. Melissa Spencer is hosting the Neurology Grand Rounds on January 27, 2016 freaturing Dr. Elizabeth M. McNally.
January 12, 2016 Scientists in the Crosbie-Watson lab reveal an important role for sarcospan in healing the dystrophic heart Dr. Michelle Parvatiyar, a post-doctoral fellow in the Crosbie-Watson's lab, and winner of the Cure Duchenne Fellowship, recently published an article in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
November 16, 2015 ‘Hunger Games’ stars scheme with teen on prank to support Duchenne muscular dystrophy research at UCLA local teenager living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy will attend tonight’s premiere of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” — and the backstory couldn’t be more Hollywood.
September 16, 2015 UCLA opens new program to solve mystery genetic diseases Patients with undiagnosed disorders encouraged to apply for comprehensive testing
February 06, 2015 Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Awards UCLA $50,000 Exploratory Grant for Evaluation of Exon Skipping Enhancers in Duchenne Congratulations to Dr. Carrie Miceli and thanks to PPMD for funding her work on enhancers of exon skipping.
February 06, 2015 Kent Heberer has been awarded the 2015 CDMD Graduate Student Award We are pleased to award Kent Heberer the 2015 CDMD Graduate Student Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the launch and analysis of clinical trials for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA.
February 06, 2015 Congratulations to Courtney Young for receiving two prestigious awards for academic excellence Courtney Young has received two prestigious awards for academic excellence
December 01, 2014 Dr. Rachelle Crosbie Watson receives the Lotus award Dr. Rachelle Crosbie Watson receives the Lotus award and a check to the CDMD to support education initiatives at the Coalition Duchenne Gala on November 14
November 19, 2014 CDMD wins the Patrick Soon Shiong Innovation Award! Patrick Soon Shiong presented the final award to Dr's Nelson and Miceli and gave a glowing speech about the inspiring, innovative, and passionate work being done by CDMD Scientists.
November 11, 2014 Invitation Muscle Cell Biology and Disease Annual Retreat You are invited to The Muscle Cell Biology and Disease Annual Retreat
November 05, 2014 Thank you STARS and The Goldwin Foundation! Thank you STARS and The Goldwin Foundation! The CDMD would like to express our sincere gratitude to STARS for their ongoing support, and for highlighting our work at their Annual Luncheon on October 23rd. STARS members introduced us to the Goldwin Foundation, which led to a 50 thousand dollar grant to support the mission of the CDMD.
September 29, 2014 (Poster Submission) CDMD Annual Retreat- November 21 Save the date!
September 18, 2014 UCLA's DNA Detectives in Action See our article in the U.S. News & World Report: Health
September 16, 2014 CDMD supported by UCLA Women's Volleyball!  
September 09, 2014 UCLA CDMD Clinical Trials Registry  
July 08, 2014 Open Postdoc Position Postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. April Pyle at the University of California Los Angeles.
June 18, 2014 Employment Opportunity - Academic Coordinator An Academic Coordinator is being solicited to help with the development of a new online course at UCLA.
June 18, 2014 Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy & CTSI Team Science Grant The Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (CDMD) and the UCLA CTSI are soliciting applications for a team science award.
April 29, 2014 NIH (NIAMS) funds "Muscular Dystrophy Center Core" for additional 5 years We are pleased to announce that the NIH (NIAMS) has re-awarded the P30 grant entitled "Muscular Dystrophy Core Center" to the CDMD for another 5 years for 3 million dollars.
April 25, 2014 A Family Affair Two UCLA medical researchers are engaged in a very personal fight against a lethal genetic illness that affects one in every 3,500 boys. Their Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is leading the effort to find treatments and extend lives — including that of their son.
April 24, 2014 Announcing the 1st Annual CureDuchenne Fellowship Award CDMD is proud to partner with CureDuchenne to offer the 1st Annual CureDuchenne Fellowship Award.
October 10, 2013 Congratulations to Dr. April Pyle Congratulations to Dr. April Pyle who was just awarded a 5 year 1.6 million dollar grant from the NIH entitled "Reprogramming and Directed Differentiation of Skeletal Muscle Cells from Pluripotent Stem Cells.'
July 29, 2013 Thanks to Dr Eileen Fowler and her team Thanks to Dr Eileen Fowler and her team for conducting the DMD natural history study.
March 01, 2013 Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Funds UCLA Project to Identify Genetic Changes that Affect the Severity of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) provided $100,000 to Dr. Stanley Nelson of the University of California, Los Angeles, to examine the genomes of 40 boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) who are either very mildly affected or very severely affected.
February 22, 2013 Dr. Rachelle Crosbie-Watson for receiving the "UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award"! Only 6 such awards are given each year to the finest teachers on the UCLA campus.
December 12, 2012 UCLA Scientists Find Drug That May Help Fight Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Drugs are currently being tested that show promise in treating patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an inherited disease that affects about one in 3,600 boys and results in muscle degeneration and, eventually, death.
December 12, 2012 CONGRATULATIONS to Gen Kendall and Katya Mokhonova CONGRATULATIONS to Gen Kendall and Katya Mokhonova, whose work is featured as an article in Science Translational Medicine and whose images are the cover art for this week's journal.
November 11, 2012 Cedars-Sinai research: Preclinical muscular dystrophy data shows promise Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that an experimental compound may help stem the debilitating effects of muscular dystrophy by restoring normal blood flow to muscles affected by the genetic disorder.
June 06, 2012 Dr. Jamie Marshall receives the Regenerative Musculoskeletal Medicine Training fellowship. The goal of this program is to provide an in-depth understanding of Regenerative Musculoskeletal Medicine, in a number of areas of investigation, ranging from development and pathology to tissue repair engineering.
May 08, 2012 CDMD colleagues publish a paper on high throughput screen Dr. Linda Baum and CDMD colleagues published a paper on a high throughput screen to find known drugs that might increase sugars on muscle cells as a possible new therapeutic intervention in DMD.
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