Past research projects

Dr Anne-Marie Childs and Dr Talat Mushtaq will be studying bone health and the risk of fractures in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as an extension to the ongoing investigation into bone health led by Dr Joseph and Dr Wong in Glasgow.

Professor Volker Straub and his team at Newcastle University will be using a faster and more accurate genetic diagnostic technique, called next generation sequencing, to identify new genetic changes that lead to limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD)....

In this project Professor Brook and his team at the University of Nottingham are developing two state-of-the-art techniques to study what happens to the faulty RNA in myotonic dystrophy after treatment with potential therapies....

In this study Professor Straub and his team are investigating how to improve an imaging technique, called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to accurately measure fibrosis in mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy....

Professor Nadir Maraldi and his team at the Rizzoli Orthapaedic Institute in Bologna are investigating whether a type of skin cell, called melanocytes, could be used as a cellular model to study collagen VI-related myopathies....

Dr Carina Wallgren-Pettersson and her team are developing techniques that can be used as a fast and reliable genetic diagnostic service for people with nemaline myopathy....

Dr Linda Popplewell at Royal Holloway, University of London, is developing molecular patches that could be a potential treatment for people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)....

Dr Federica Montanaro at University College London (UCL) is investigating the impact that exon skipping has on the function of the dystrophin protein....

Professor Dame Kay Davies at Oxford University is aiming to identify biomarkers that can monitor the effectiveness of utrophin up-regulators....

Dr Claire Wood is aiming to gain a better understanding of the bone and growth problems associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy....