On Wednesday 17th March the Duchenne Research Fund hosted a virtual evening to share updates with supporters about research funded by the charity. Our co-founders Kerry & Doron Rosenfeld welcomed more than 200 viewers from across five continents who came together...
We are delighted to share the news that Dr Ronald Cohn, the head of the DRF’s Scientific Advisory Board, has been appointed President and CEO of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada (known as ‘Sick Kids’), effective 1 May 2019. Dr Cohn...
The Duchenne Research Fund has awarded a £200,000 grant to the team at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada (‘Sick Kids’), who are working on using CRISPR/Cas9 technology to correct duplication mutations for Duchenne. Sick Kids’ incoming President and CEO...
Dr Ronald Cohn, who leads the Duchenne Research Fund’s Scientific Advisory Board, has become the first ever researcher to successfully correct one of the mutations that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, working on cells in his laboratory at the Centre for...