Informational Webinar Our webinar on January 20th at noon U.S. Eastern Time will introduce our Voice of the Patient Forum (taking place on April 21) and answer your questions about how to be involved. This meeting is the FSHD Community’s platform to present testimony by patients and family caregivers and educate the FDA on how... Read More »
John Hogan Every Thursday, at 1:00 pm ET, we are hosting our “FSHD Society Sequester Camp” webinar series, which will run weekly at the same time for as long as it’s needed. Anyone can join from anywhere for free. We’ll be sharing information, resources, and social support. For your personalized link to join the webinar,... Read More »
Constantine Farmakidis, MD Our presenter today is Constantine Farmakidis, MD, from the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Farmakidis will discuss strategies for maximizing home safety, fitness and independence for patients with FSHD. His presentation will be followed by a period of questions and answers. This topic that may be of particular interest in the... Read More »
Dr. Rita Perlingeiro Our webinar speaker this week is Dr. Rita Perlingeiro, Associate Professor of Medicine within the Lillehei Heart Institute at the University of Minnesota. Her primary research interests include understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling lineage-specific differentiation of pluripotent stem cells, and applying this information to efficiently generate tissue-specific stem/progenitor cells endowed with in... Read More »
Thanks to the diligent efforts of our program committee, we have reconfigured this year’s FSHD International Research Congress into a two-day online conference, to take place on June 25-26. This year’s congress will feature keynote talks and research presentations not readily available anywhere else. While the congress will be virtual, there will be plenty of... Read More »
1:00 pm ET | 12:00 pm CT | 11:00 am MT | 10:00 am PT Kate Eichinger, DPT, and Johanna Hamel, MD. Presented by Johanna Hamel, MD, and Kate Eichinger, DPT, from the University of Rochester Medical School. When doctors diagnose individuals with a progressive condition like FSH muscular dystrophy (FSHD), they’re often asked, What... Read More »
The FSHD Society’s annual FSHD International Research Congress is the premier global conference exclusively focused on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) research. World renowned clinicians, medical researchers, pharmaceutical industry leaders and basic scientists present and discuss new developments, reinforce collaborative efforts, facilitate new initiatives, and coordinate research and clinical activities. With the recent advances in FSHD... Read More »
4:00 PM ET | 3:00 PM CT | 2:00 PM MT | 1:00 PM PT The team from Fulcrum Therapeutics will be sharing the data from its Phase 2b clinical trial of Losmapimod, a treatment for FSH muscular dystrophy that is intended to stop the expression of the DUX4 gene and slow the progression of... Read More »
The FSHD Society’s annual FSHD International Research Congress is the premier global conference exclusively focused on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) research. World renowned clinicians, medical researchers, pharmaceutical industry leaders and basic scientists present and discuss new developments, reinforce collaborative efforts, facilitate new initiatives, and coordinate research and clinical activities. With the recent advances in FSHD... Read More »
