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AMRA Medical cites FSHD Society’s support of its MRI study

Home / FSHD Research / AMRA Medical cites FSHD Society’s support of its MRI study

Posted on: Oct 13, 2021

Whole-body MRI will be used in the MOVE+ Natural History Study to develop disease progression biomarkers that enhance future clinical trials for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)

Hats off to AMRA Medical and Avidity Biosciences for adding magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the landmark MOVE study. The FSHD Society helped to build and expand the clinical trial research network that makes this study possible. We’re also constantly bringing stakeholders together to forge impactful collaborations like this one. MOVE will find out whether doctors or physical therapists can detect changes in muscle strength and function in people with FSHD during regular clinic visits. Now we’ll learn whether MR imaging can track these changes as well. New methods like these are essential for companies like Avidity to show whether a treatment works in clinical trials. Thanks also to Friends of FSH Research, FSHD Canada, and other supporters! You can read AMRA’s full press release below:

AMRA Medical’s Whole-body MRI Analysis Used in FSHD Clinical Trial Research Network Study for Biomarker Development

LINKÖPING, Sweden, Oct. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AMRA Medical, a digital health company delivering a new standard in body composition analysis through rapid whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), today announced its involvement with the Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Clinical Trial Research Network (CTRN) to support the Motor Outcomes to Validate Evaluations Plus (MOVE+) Study—a natural history study for people living with FSHD.

MOVE+ is a sub-study of the ongoing natural history study called Motor Outcomes to Validate Evaluations in FSHD (MOVE FSHD) and adds MRI—made possible in part through sponsorship by Avidity Biosciences, FSHD Society, Friends of FSH Research, and FSHD Canada. MOVE+ will enroll 200 participants across 12 sites in the US and two planned sites in Canada with the goal of better understanding how to utilize whole-body MRI to discover and validate specific biomarkers for FSHD that can inform future clinical trials. The results of this study will be particularly important for MOVE+ sponsoring companies like Avidity Biosciences—a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of RNA therapeutics with an advancing and expanding pipeline that includes multiple skeletal muscle programs.

“The FSHD CTRN is very excited about our collaboration with AMRA. We think that the use of whole-body MRI will be important not only for trial planning, but to better understand and treat people with FSHD,” says Jeffrey Statland, MD, Professor of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which also is the Clinical Coordinating Center for the FSHD CTRN.

To date, the MOVE study has used functional tests as primary outcomes, but recent studies have shown the promise of MRI for FSHD. To complement functional tests, MOVE+ will use AMRA’s whole-body, whole-muscle MRI protocol and analysis, which involves measuring 36 muscles throughout the participant’s shoulders, arms, torso and legs—distal to proximal and bilaterally. Specifically, the researchers will quantify muscle fat infiltration, lean muscle volume, and muscle fat fraction at two–time points throughout a three-year study period for each individual.

Evaluating entire muscles throughout the whole body provides a fuller picture of how the disease presents and progresses, which is critical to understand when searching for the most optimal outcome measurements to use in FSHD clinical trials. Not only is this applicable for FSHD, but also other neuromuscular disorders including DMD, LGMD, Myotonic Dystrophy, Mitochondrial Myopathy, SBMA, SIBM, and Pompe Disease.

Learn more about AMRA Medical’s MRI-based services for neuromuscular disease clinical trials at amramedical.com/solutions/medical-research-services/ or connect with our team of experts for a detailed discussion at info@amramedical.com.

SOURCE PR Newswire

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