Acaster Lloyd, an independent research consultancy, are carrying out research looking at the impact of Duchenne on family carers, including people's …
Advice for Emergency Care
Children with DMD experience the normal childhood illnesses and accidents. But, because their muscles are weaker, some things are more serious for …
How many people with Duchenne might be eligible to receive idebenone in England?
In May 2019 Santhera Pharmaceuticals submitted an application for a European Marketing Authorisation for Puldysa® (idebenone) for the treatment of …
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Sarepta Therapeutics and Roche to partner on gene therapy
Sarepta Therapeutics and Roche have announced that they will be working in partnership to develop Sarepta’s potential gene therapy for Duchenne …
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Golodirsen gains conditional approval in US
Sarepta Therapeutics has announced that the FDA (the medicines regular in the US) has granted accelerated approval to golodirsen. Golodirsen, or …
Wave halts development of exon skipping drugs
Wave has today announced that they have discontinued the clinical program of suvodirsen (designed to skip exon 51 of the dystrophin gene) and are …
Welcome to our new Company Secretary
Action Duchenne is delighted to announce the appointment of Victoria Penrice as Company Secretary and trustee. Victoria is joining us at an exciting …
Jonathan raises the profile of Duchenne
Our amazing community have really got behind Jonathon Inkin singing his beautiful rendition of Jingle Bells. Jonathon is raising money for Action …
Duchenne Patient Academy in Athens
Last week our Trustee, Gary Fegan, was honoured to join delegates from Duchenne patient organisations from more than 40 countries worldwide …
Update on UNITE-DMD project
The UNITE-DMD project, which we are co-funding alongside Muscular Dystrophy UK and AFM-Téléthon brings together several strands of research to …
Duchenne Science events back on the road in 2020
We've welcomed over 100 people to our Science on Tour events throughout 2019, these empowering and invaluable sessions have been a huge success and we …
GA Solicitors – Charity of the Year
We were delighted to be chosen as Charity of the Year by Plymouth law firm GA Solicitors. As part of their fundraising the team organised …
