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 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...

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...

CMT Research Foundation Launches Research Advisory Committee of Renowned Scientific Experts

Oct 18, 2023 | Press Releases, Research News

ATLANTA (October 18, 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 the formation of a Research Advisory Committee (RAC) consisting of: Dr. William...

Arthur Suckow, former Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DTx Pharma, Joins CMT Research Foundation Board of Directors

Oct 3, 2023 | News, Press Releases

ATLANTA (October 3, 2023) CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a patient-led, non-profit focused on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease*, today announced that Arthur Suckow, Ph.D. former Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DTx...

Another Asset with Potential to Treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth has been Acquired by Pharma

Sep 26, 2023 | News, Press Releases

An asset that is being tested in CMT4B1 underwritten by the CMT Research Foundation has been licensed by AcuraStem to Takeda for approximately $580 million. The exclusive, worldwide license will enable Takeda to develop and commercialize AcuraStem's PIKFYVE targeted...