Research & News

After nearly one and a half decades of medical research in the arena of neuromuscular disorders, conducted at two of the world most renowned research institutions, the Joshua Frase Foundation embarks on discovering the future of neuromuscular disease treatments and cures. Click below for details of some of the most advanced research being done in the fields of gene therapy, new vector development, to the newly viable science of regenerative medicine.

Major Breakthrough: The Miracle of Nibs

Nib's Legacy Lives On

MTM1 mutation associated with X-linked myotubular myopathy in Labrador Retrievers

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Congenital Myopathy Research in the Beggs Laboratory

JFF and Wake Forest University:
Recap Last 10 Years at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Director: Anthony Atala)

Orthopaedic Complications of Myotubular Myopathy

AAV-mediated intramuscular delivery of myotubularin corrects the myotubular myopathy phenotype in targeted murine muscle and suggests a function in plasma membrane homeostasis

X-Linked Myotubular and Centronuclear Myopathies

Medical complications in long-term survivors with X-linked myotubular myopathy

American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Statement on the Respiratory and Related Management of Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Undergoing Anesthesia or Sedation

Medical management of people with a Neuromuscular Disease