October 13, 2016 The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD hosted its first annual Casino Night at Mercedes Benz of Massapequa on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 8 p.m. to midnight. The night was filled with games, dancing, special singing performances, silent auction and fundraising. The 200 plus attendees came from near and far to support …
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We are proud to announce that the Board of Directors of the Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD has recently awarded a scientific research grant in the amount of $75,625 to Dr. Scott Harper and his team at The Ohio State University. The grant will fund a study titled “Developing a muscle-specific DUX4 inhibition system for …
The Board of Directors of the Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD has proudly approved the funding of $107,777 to Peter Jones, PhD and Takako Jones, PhD at the University of Massachusetts for their mouse model research project. It is an expansion of research funded by our foundation last year, which was a tremendous success. Below …
September 19, 2011 Massapequa Park, New York The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD announced the extension of a scientific research project directed towards understanding the genetic basis of variable severity in FSHD (Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy). The study, entitled, “Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Variable Severity in FSHD” is headed by Dr. Eli Hatchwell, formerly Director …
By GINA KOLATA Published: August 19, 2010 The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years the genome’s equivalent of an attic full of broken and useless junk. Some of those genes, surprised geneticists reported Thursday, can rise from the dead like zombies, waking up …
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By: Tom Valeo Published: September 16, 2010 – Volume 10 – Issue 18 – p 15 Nearly 20 years after the discovery of the mutation, scientists have finally determined how it contributes to a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD, which occurs in about 1 in 20,000 births.