The first Dystonia Coalition Career Development Award recipient and three pilot studies were announced at the consortium's inaugural meeting, hosted on November 5.
First Career Development Award went to Maren Carbon-Corell, MD, who will work to develop a marker for dystonia based on FMRI patterns in the brain. The award is funded in partnership with the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF).
DC also announced awards for its first three Pilot Studies:
- Mark LeDoux, MD, PhD: THAP1 Sequence Variants In Dystonia
- Giovanni DeFazio, MD, PhD: Development And Validation Of Clinical Diagnostic Guidelines And A Novel Severity Rating Scale For Primary Blepharospasm, Funded In Partnership With The BEBRF
- Steve Frucht, MD: A Multicenter, Exploratory, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Dose Escalation Study Of Sodium Oxybate As A Symptomatic Treatment For Idiopathic Cervical Dystonia, Funded In Partnership With The NSTA
