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Recent news
Catch up on the latest developments in the projects we fund.
Gavriel Rosenfeld talks to Dr Ronni Cohn about living with Duchenne
On Wednesday 17th March the Duchenne Research Fund hosted a virtual evening giving supporters an update on ongoing research funded by the charity. We were so thrilled that Gavriel Rosenfeld, the son of the DRF’s founders Kerry & Doron Rosenfeld, joined the virtual event …
DRF funds PPMD neurobehavioural research
We have awarded an £80,000 grant to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) to support its research into neurobehavioral issues in Duchenne – focusing on key areas such as learning, behaviour, depression and anxiety …
DRF funds Duchenne clinic at Great Ormond Street
We are pleased to share that we have awarded a grant of £35,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital to establish a dedicated clinic for children who are non-ambulant (no longer able to walk). The grant supports the post of Senior Physiotherapist Nicola Burnett and has enabled more than 80 patients to be seen …
Our mission
We aim to stop Duchenne muscular dystrophy being a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of boys worldwide.
Our impact
We are helping turn the hope of treatments into reality. Critical supportive drugs are in clinical trial thanks to our funds.
Your help
In the last 3 years we have given more than £1.5m to ground-breaking research projects.
And there is still work to do.