News & Stories

See the latest news about CMT drug development and read stories from the CMT community that highlight why we must deliver treatments and cures during our lifetime.

Dr. Riann Egusquiza Joins The CMT Research Foundation as Director of Research

Apr 8, 2024 | About CMT, Press Releases

Riann Egusquiza (ryan egg-uh-ski-tha) PhD has joined The CMT Research Foundation as Director of Research, a newly created position. She will report to Cleary Simpson, CMTRF’s CEO, and be responsible for overseeing all CMTRF-funded research and scientific programming...

CMT Research Foundation Partners with Jenny Decker, CMT Patient Attempting to Solo-Circumnavigate Globe to Raise Awareness of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Apr 2, 2024 | Press Releases

The CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF) a non-profit focused solely on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)*, has partnered with Jenny Decker, a 40-year-old nurse battling CMT, a rare neurological disease with no known cure, who last...

CMT Research Update/NMD Pharma

Apr 1, 2024 | CMT Research Updates, Drug Development, Research News

NMD Pharma recently published data demonstrating that their drug candidate, NMD670, improves muscle function and neuromuscular transmission deficits in both animal models and patients. Dr. William David Arnold, a member of the CMTRF Scientific Advisory Board, who was...

Cisco’s Santo Caivano Joins CMT Research Foundation Board of Directors

Jan 16, 2024 | Press Releases

CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a patient-led, non-profit focused on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, today announced that Santo Caivano, Director, Customer Engagements of Cisco’s CAP (Critical Accounts Program) Americas team,...

Kayleena Speakman Joins The CMT Research Foundation as Communications Manager

Jan 4, 2024 | News, Press Releases

Kayleena Speakman has joined The CMT Research Foundation, a patient-led, non-profit focused on delivering treatments and cures for CMT as Communications Manager responsible for emails, blogs, social media posts and opinion pieces for the CMT community, donors,...

An Extraordinary Year and the Road Ahead

Jan 3, 2024 | News

As we begin 2024, I want to take a look back and celebrate the extraordinary year we had at the CMT Research Foundation. Since 2018, CMTRF has had an outsized impact on inspiring drug hunters to work on developing therapeutics for CMT and establishing itself as a key...

Updates on CMT Research

Dec 21, 2023 | CMT Research Updates, Research News

There have been a number of interesting developments in CMT research in the past few weeks. Here are three: Update 1: Pharnext recently announced topline results of its pivotal phase 3 (PREMIER trial) of PXT3003, its drug candidate for Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A (CMT1A)...

The Importance of Fundraising

Nov 14, 2023 | About CMT, Life with CMT

By: Miron Hall Because CMT is a rare disease, it often receives less attention and funding than more common medical conditions. Without adequate resources, researchers struggle to develop effective treatments and ultimately find a cure. This is where fundraising plays...

Dr. Grace Pavlath Joins CMT Research Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee

Nov 14, 2023 | Press Releases

ATLANTA (November 14, 2023) The CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a patient-led, non-profit focused on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease*, today announced that Dr. Grace Pavlath has joined its newly formed Research Advisory Committee...

Update from the Novartis CMT1A Development Team

Oct 29, 2023 | About CMT, Drug Development, News

As you know, the CMT Research Foundation is proud to have introduced DTx leadership to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2019. We funded their first work in CMT to demonstrate the FALCON platform's potential to deliver a drug to the Schwann cells. And from there, the...