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Professor Laurent Servais is studying how children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) grow and develop after being diagnosed at birth. This could help guide when treatment should start or be added.
Dr Alberto Malerba and his PhD student are working on a new treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that does three different jobs to help protect muscles and slow down the speed at which the condition gets worse.
Professor Liang He is creating a new tool for children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) that uses soft robotics and virtual reality to support movement and make physiotherapy more fun.
Professor David Brook and his PhD student are exploring why a type of genetic message, called RNA, gets stuck in cells in myotonic dystrophy.
Ben is a frontline paramedic who lives with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Despite receiving a diagnosis just before his career started, he’s still working in his dream job three years later.
On Friday 5 September, the Scottish Government announced that Scotland will become the first country in the UK to begin national screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).