The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system. SfN’s 40th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2010, will be held November 13-17 in San Diego, California. As in past years, the exhibit hall will have an “SMA Organizations” booth devoted to raising awareness of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) among the researchers and scientists attending the meeting.

In addition, Families of SMA, FightSMA, MDA, and SMA Foundation will be sponsoring a satellite event. Entitled “Nucleic Acids to the Rescue: Gene and Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapies for SMA,” the symposia meeting will be held Monday, November 15th at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, just a block from the SfN meeting site. (This event is not sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience.)

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A reminder that a satellite symposium on SMA entitled “NMJ in spinal muscular atrophy - the chicken or the egg?” is being sponsored by Families of SMA, FightSMA, MDA, and SMA Foundation. The event, to be held Monday, November 5, 2007 at 6:30pm in the Annie Room of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, will be moderated by Dr. Michael Sendtner of the Universität Würzburg Institut für Klinische Neurobiologie in Germany. After refreshments from 6:30-7:10 PM, the meeting agenda is as follows:

For more information, meeting attendees can stop by the SMA organizations’ booth, #4301.

A list of more upcoming professional meetings can be found at the FightSMA website.

FightSMA will be hosting booth #37 at the 36th Annual Child Neurology Society Meeting being held this week in Quebec City, Quebec. Doctors and researchers will receive general information about Spinal Muscular Atrophy, current and future clinical trials, and the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act. Also, visitors to the booth will have opportunities to discuss with FightSMA Scientific Advisor Dr. Alex MacKenzie.

During the Society for Neuroscience’s 37th Annual Meeting in November, a satellite symposium on SMA entitled “NMJ in spinal muscular atrophy - the chicken or the egg?” will be held Monday, November 5, 2007 at 6:30pm in the Annie Room of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. This event is being sponsored by Families of SMA, FightSMA, MDA, and SMA Foundation. For more information, meeting attendees can stop by the SMA organizations’ booth, #4301.

A list of more upcoming professional meetings can be found at the FightSMA website.