September is Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month, and advocates are launching campaigns to educate people about the different types of rare…
Marisa Horak, MS
Marisa holds a Master of Science in cellular and molecular pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. Her areas of expertise include cancer biology, immunology, and genetics, and she has worked as a science writing and communications intern for the Genetics Society of America.
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Articles by Marisa Horak, MS
For the first time, a person with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been given an experimental gene-editing therapy, called…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending its review of deramiocel, an experimental cell therapy for…
Epicrispr Biotechnologies has raised $90 million in financing to support late-stage clinical testing of EPI-321, the company’s epigenetic treatment…
A U.S. biopharmaceutical company is gearing up to launch its first clinical trial of a novel cell therapy designed to…
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched an expanded access program to make the experimental exon-skipping therapy…
An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted that available evidence does not support the…
The next Clinical & Scientific Conference hosted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) will take place March 21-24, 2027,…
Continuing corticosteroid treatment into adulthood was associated with slower lung-function decline in people with Duchenne…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering whether to conditionally approve zeleciment rostudirsen (z-rostudirsen), an experimental therapy for…