How important is the Million Dollar Bike Ride to a rare disease like CMD?
Each team who raises the minimum of $20,000 will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $30,000 for research Penn's Center for Orphan Disease Research and Therapy!!!
With your help, in 2021 Cure CMD raised over $90,000 including the match by Penn ODC! We funded 2 Collagen VI research grants totaling over $90,000 to:
DYSTRO-SMARTY: A novel nanotechnology platform for delivery of nucleic acids to treat Collagen VI-related Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Cecilia Jimenez-Mallebrera
Hospital Sant Joan de Deu
$48,876
MDBR, CMD MDBR, CMD, 2021-1
Studying in-situ, in-vivo, and in-silico the pleiotropic action of collagen-VI to identify potential late-onset risks in COL6-CMD patients
Jeanette Erdmann
Universität zu Lübeck
$48,876
MDBR, CMD MDBR, CMD, 2021-1
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