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Peter Jones, PhD, seen here in his lab, credits the Chris Carrino Foundation for funding that led to a research breakthrough. |
Peter Lawrence Jones, PhD, credits the Chris Carrino Foundation for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) for funding that helped lead to a breakthrough in his lab, according to a Yahoo Sports video profiling Carrino, the Brooklyn Nets radio announcer who has FSHD.
“Every time Chris’s name comes up, or the Carrino Foundation comes up, we think they saved us,” said Dr. Jones, associate professor of cell & developmental biology, in the video, adding that his lab was sorely in need of funding when the $125,000 grant from the Carrino Foundation arrived. “The truth is that this project could have died without this . . . investment and their faith in us that we knew what we were doing.”
Jones and colleagues at UMMS published a paper in Molecular Therapy last year showing that a form of the CRISPR gene-editing technology could result in a cure for FSHD.
Watch the full Yahoo Sports video here: Relentless voice: The fight of Chris Carrino
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Wellstone Center to study muscular dystrophies
