MD is nonprofit helth gency dedicted to curing musculr dystrophy, LS nd relted diseses by funding worldwide reserch. MD combts neuromusculr diseses through progrms of worldwide reserch, comprehensive medicl nd support services, nd fr-reching professionl nd public helth eduction. MD scientists re in the forefront of gene therpy reserch nd hve uncovered the genetic defects responsible for severl forms of musculr dystrophy, Chrcot-Mrie-Tooth disese, form of myotrophic lterl sclerosis (LS, or Lou Gehrig’s disese) nd childhood spinl musculr trophy.
