Dreadlocks for Dystrophy
Brandon has been growing his dreadlocks for over five years and this October, he is going to shave them all off! In what Brandon is calling Dreadlocks for Dystrophy, he will be attending October CampMDA [...]
Lions Club Supports ChallengeMD! 2017 Goldfields
Two of our ChallengeMD! 2017 Goldfields Bike Ride participants Ros and Lloyd held a trivia night at the Lions Club of Ocean Grove Barwon Heads and incredibly raised over $9,000 towards their total for ChallengeMD [...]
MDA Harley Raffle # 62 Winner
Congratulations to the winner of our Harley Raffle #62 Scott from Kanwal, NSW! The winning ticket number was #5763. Scott started buying tickets in MDA's famous Harley Davidson Raffle back in 2003 during the Open [...]
Looking Back and Moving Forward
Launch of National Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Register On Monday November 15th 2010, the Director General of Health launched the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Registry. Patient registries are infrastructure that supports clinical and translational research. The [...]
MDA in The Sunday Age & Sydney Morning Herald
MDA was in the Sunday Age as well as online in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age online talking about the importance of NDIS funding student placements, so respite programs such as CampMDA can [...]
Christmas in July Trivia Night
Stay tuned for updates on raffle prizes! Order Tickets Here!
FDA Approves Drug for Treatment of DMD
Chantal Coles PhD NMDRC provides a Research Update... On September 19th last year the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first drug for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, called EXONDYS 51™. This [...]
Dr Jason White – Back in the Lab
Recently, Dr. Jason White, lead researcher at the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (NDMRC) at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, returned from six months of research in Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of this trip was [...]
