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.

CMT Research Foundation Funds Shift Pharmaceuticals to Advance Search for CMT1A Treatment

Jan 30, 2020 | CMT Research Updates, CMTRF Funded Research, Drug Development, Press Releases, Research News

Shift to Develop and Analyze Novel Series of Drugs Designed to Control Expression of PMP22 Gene The CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a nonprofit focused solely on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, today announced it has partnered with...

Importance of Biomarkers in CMT

Jan 21, 2020 | CMT Research Updates, Drug Development, Press Releases, Research News

Using Biomarkers to Measure Effective Treatment Options for CMT

Targeting Axon Degeneration – a treatment for all types of CMT?

Jan 7, 2020 | CMT Research Updates, Research News

Preventing axon degeneration could stop the progression of CMT. Read about the efforts by pharma to stop axon degeneration.

Are We Prepared for Clinical Trials in Charcot-Marie-Tooth?

Jan 7, 2020 | CMT Research Updates, Press Releases, Research News

A Review of Clinical Trial Readiness for CMT BY CMT RESEARCH FOUNDATION'S SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER DR. ALEXANDER ROSSOR Read the full paper In this issue of Brain Research, Mike Shy, Mary Reilly and I summarize the current array of outcome measures for...

Partnership with DTx Pharma to optimize antisense oligonucleotides as a gene therapy for CMT1A

Dec 20, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, CMTRF Funded Research, Press Releases, Research News

ATLANTA (December 20, 2019) The CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a nonprofit focused solely on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth, today announced it has partnered with DTx Pharma, an RNA medicines company breaking open new therapeutic areas for...

A Robust Therapeutic Pipeline for CMT 1A

Dec 19, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, CMTRF Funded Research, Press Releases, Research News

The majority of people with CMT have the 1A subtype which is due to duplication of the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) gene leading to breakdown of the myelin that surrounds peripheral nerves. With time this loss of myelin causes nerve dysfunction and...

Because of You

Dec 11, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, Press Releases

This year I am fortunate to celebrate the holidays with my family. As we prepared to gather three generations for Thanksgiving, my sister and I made an unusual stop: we rented a ramp so my mother could get into my sister’s home. My mom's CMT has progressed enough...

Drug Screening in a Dish

Dec 6, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, CMTRF Funded Research, Press Releases, Research News

At the CMT Research Foundation we are very much interested in using patient-derived stem cells called iPSCs for drug screening in order to develop therapies for CMT. Indeed, one of the first projects we funded was such a drug screening effort for CMT2A at Acurastem....

Gene Editing Used for the First Time in CMT

Nov 22, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, CMTRF Funded Research, Press Releases, Research News

Gene editing as a therapeutic tool for treating disease has been very much in the news recently. The most commonly used gene editing tool to permanently fix the underlying genetic cause of a disease is CRISPR/Cas9. A recent paper demonstrates the first...

Chief Science Officer comments on recent work

Nov 11, 2019 | CMT Research Updates, Press Releases, Research News

CMT Research Foundation Chief Science Officer Grace Pavlath, PhD comments on recent work by Morelli et al: Allele-specific RNA interference prevents neuropathy in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2D mouse models Some types of CMT result from the expression of a mutant...