This summer, FightSMA and the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation (GSF) partnered in an effort to raise funding for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy research.
GSF’s goal is to raise $200,000 before the end of 2010. Today, they announced that they have reached the halfway mark.
From GSF:
Less than TWO months after launching our “$200K For SMA” fundraising campaign in support of promising SMA focused gene therapy research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University, friends, families, colleagues, coworkers, communities, and total strangers across the country – some impacted by SMA and many not – have come together to organize and execute an impressive laundry list of wonderful fundraisers totaling over – DRUM ROLL PLEASE – One Hundred Thousand Dollars. That’s right. $100,000!!! In…just…TWO…months.
There’s just no other way to say it – what’s happening here is incredible, inspiring, and humbling. And we are personally honored to be part of all of this positivity – it fuels us to push forward and do more. At our core, we’ve always believed in the power of the individual. And as individuals, if we collectively work together in a positive, productive fashion, we can have an enormous impact and change the status quo.
Click here to read the full announcement.
A huge “THANK YOU!” goes out to everyone who has been involved in raising funds for GSF’s “$200K for SMA” (read the list here) and FightSMA’s “Realizing the Dream” – campaigns worked together towards the same goal: to bring SMA gene therapy to clinical trial.
The web magazine, Slate, has a thought-provoking article entitled “The Medical Revolution: Where are the cures promised by stem cells, gene therapy, and the human genome?” which addresses the difficulties of developing new therapies.
