"This Month in Muscular Dystrophy"

Kevin Flanigan

Podcasts Dedicated to the Latest Neuromuscular Research

Hosted by Kevin Flanigan, MD, "This Month in Muscular Dystrophy" podcasts highlight the latest in muscular dystrophy and other inherited neuromuscular disease research. During each podcast, authors of recent publications discuss how their work improves our understanding of inherited neuromuscular diseases, and what their work might mean for treatment of these diseases.

Featured Podcasts

March 2015

Dr. Jerry Mendell discusses phase 1/2a follistatin gene therapy trial for becker muscular dystrophy. 

February 2015

Dr. Kevin Flanigan discusses IRES-Induced Dystrophin as a potential therapy for DMD.

January 2015

Dr. Louise Rodino-Klapac discusses dysferlin overlap vectors to restore function in dysferlinopathies.

July 2014

Dr. Scott Harper discusses RNAi silencing in limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1A.

2015

March 2015

Dr. Jerry Mendell discusses phase 1/2a follistatin gene therapy trial for becker muscular dystrophy. 

February 2015

Dr. Kevin Flanigan discusses IRES-Induced Dystrophin as a potential therapy for DMD.

January 2015

Dr. Louise Rodino-Klapac discusses dysferlin overlap vectors to restore function in dysferlinopathies.

2014

July 2014

Dr. Scott Harper discusses RNAi silencing in limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1A.

April 2014

Dr. Brian Kaspar discusses a new method for studying ALS, with potential to test therapeutics in individual patients.

2013

November 2013

Dr. Louis Chicoine discusses the effect of plasmapheresis in removal of AAV antibodies for gene therapy.

September 2013

Dr. Volker Straub discusses the use of muscle MRI in muscular dystrophy.

July 2013

Dr. Jeff Chamberlain discusses gene and cell mediated therapies for muscular dystrophy.

June 2013

Dr. Paul Martin discusses Galgt2 gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.

March 2013

Dr. Louise Rodino-Klapac discusses alpha 7 integrin as A therapeutic approach to muscular dystrophy.

January 2013

Dr. James Ervasti discusses stability of therapeutic forms of dystrophin.

2012

December 2012

Dr. Federica Montanaro discusses new cardiac dystrophin associated proteins.

September 2012

Professor Francesco Muntoni discusses congenital muscular dystrophies.

July 2012

Dr. Louise Rodino-Klapac discusses advances in dysferlin gene therapy.

May 2012

Dr. Hugh Allen discusses cardiomyopathy in duchenne muscular dystrophy.

April 2012

Dr. Jerry Mendell discusses newborn screening in duchenne muscular dystrophy.

March 2012

Dr. Thomas Voit discusses gamma sarcoglycan gene therapy.

February 2012

Dr. Burghes discusses antisense oligomer treatment in an SMA mouse model.

January 2012

Dr. Steve Wilton discusses antisense-induced exon skipping.

2011

December 2011

Dr. Denis Guttridge discusses NF-kB therapy for duchenne muscular dystrophy.

September 2011

Dr. Jill Rafael-Fortney discusses the effects of Lisinopril and Spironolactone on DMD mice.

August 2011

Dr. Valérie Allamand discusses the function of Selenoprotein N in muscle and its link to neuromuscular disorders.

July 2011

Dr. Carsten Bonnemann discusses collagen VI myopathies and a novel cause of ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy.

June 2011

Dr. Paul Martin discusses how the CMAH gene deletion in the mdx mouse model of duchenne muscular dystrophy helps better mimic the more severe aspects of DMD.

February 2011

Dr. Scott Harper discusses DUX4 as a potential candidate gene for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

January 2011

Dr. Jerry Mendell discusses dystrophin immunity in duchenne muscular dystrophy.

2010

December 2010

Dr. Craig McDonald discusses the six-minute walk test as an outcome measure in DMD.

October 2010

Dr. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus discusses progress in antisense oligonucleotide therapies.

September 2010

Dr. Federica Montanaro discusses cardiomyopathy in becker muscular dystrophy.

June 2010

Professor Kate Bushby discusses cinical care standards in muscular dystrophy.

May 2010

Dr. Brian Kaspar discusses gene transfer in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

April 2010

Gene transfer of follistatin: Dr. Mendell discusses implications for muscle disease.