FED announces financial support for the first international workshop

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FED announces financial support for the first international workshop on pre-clinical methods in mouse drug screening trials in the muscular dystrophies.

The National Institutes of Health Wellstone network has sponsored workshops on key current topics in translational and clinical research in the muscular dystrophies, and recently announced the award of a workshop on standardization of methods for drug testing in mouse models of muscular dystrophy. As more is known about the causes of the muscular dystrophies, and more mouse models become available, it becomes increasingly important to test multiple therapeutic approaches in the mouse models, as a 'proof-of-principal' prior to the start of expensive and time consuming human clinical trials. However, methods used to carry out mouse pre-clinical trials vary from laboratory to laboratory, making it difficult to compare results, and judge when best to move to human trials. This workshop, organized by Kanneboyina Nagaraju of Children's National Medical Center, will bring together top investigators from around the world, with the goal of reaching a consensus to most rapidly move pre-clinical testing forward. FED is proud to co-sponsor this workshop with the National Institutes of Health.