MDA Awards $900,000 to Nationwide Children’s Hospital Researcher

The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded Dr. Jerry Mendell a three-year, $900,000 grant to study heart disease in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).  While treatment of DMD has advanced, prolonging the lives of boys with the disease, physicians are seeing the development of heart disease in these patients.  Mendell and his team hope to improve cardiac care by establishing the best medication regimen and studying the best time to start treatment in order to protect a patient from heart failure. 

In total the MDA announced commitments of $1.78 million to institutions including Nationwide Children’s, Columbia University, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario and San Diego’s Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

For more information, see the release from Nationwide Children’s