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Clinical Trials: Muscular dystrophy
UF Health research scientists make medicine better every day. They discover new ways to help people by running clinical trials. When you join a clinical trial, you can get advanced medical care. Sometimes years before it's available everywhere. You can also help make medicine better for everyone else. If you'd like to learn more about clinical trials, visit our clinical trials page. Or click one of the links below:
The purpose of this research study is to determine the potential of magnetic resonance imaging, spectroscopy, and whole body imaging to monitor disease progression and to serve as an objective outcome measure for clinical trials in Muscular…
- Status
- Accepting Candidates
- Ages
- 5 Years - 62 Years
- Sexes
- Male
The study will evaluate the safety and dystrophin expression following gene therapy in boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). It is a single-arm, non-randomized, open-label study
- Investigator
- Barry J Byrne
- Status
- Accepting Candidates
- Ages
- 2 Years - 3 Years
- Sexes
- Male
Examining two strategies as potential adjuvant therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD); aerobic exercise training (to induce adaptations in skeletal muscle and improve cardiovascular health) and tadalafil, an FDA-approved vasodilator (to…
- Status
- Accepting Candidates
- Ages
- 6 Years - N/A
- Sexes
- Male
News and Patient Stories: Muscular dystrophy
UF team plays major role in success of newly approved Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug
April 4, 2024
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Duchenne muscular dystrophy families, advocates and health care providers celebrated a milestone in March with the U.S. Food and Drug…
College of Public Health and Health Professions, +1 more
Study: UF is world’s top-ranked institution for published gene therapy research
December 22, 2023
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is the world’s top contributor to scientific knowledge and literature about a widely used gene therapy technique,…
Department of Pediatrics, +2 more