Tag: Axon

• The Problem With Writing About CMT

  

  I’ve been increasingly irritated lately by US-based CMT-related non-profit organizations that seem to compete with each other for donations — supposedly they drive research for “treatments and cures.” How well they actually do this relative to the padding of their own budgets is a good question I might take up down the line, but you…

  Dan Knauss

  January 1, 2021

  Awareness, Research, Therapy

  aldose reductase inhibitors, Axon, CMT2, D-sorbitol, diabetes, Douglas Zochodne, Epalrestat, hHMN, Sorbinil, sorbitol dehydrogenase, SORD, Stephan Züchner

• The State of Research for Cures (2019)

  

  The US-based CMTA (Charcot Marie Tooth Association) has a 12-year-old program called the Strategy to Accelerate Research (STAR) that is actively pursuing the causes and possible cures for CMT. STAR will cover nearly all CMT Type 1s and 2s, including types with as yet unidentified genetic causes.

  Dan

  December 31, 2019

  Research

  Antisense Oligonucleotides, Axon, CMT1, CMT1A, CMT1B, CMT1X, CMT2, CMT2A, CMT2E, CMT4, CMT4C, CMTX, CRISPR, Inherited Neuropathies Consortium, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Kleopas Kleopa, Mitofusin 2, Muscular Dystrophy, Myelin, Neuromuscular Disorders, PMP22, Schwann Cells, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, STAR, Stephan Züchner