Supporting Research

Supporting Research

The RYR-1 Foundation exists to raise funds that support both basic science and clinical research of RYR-1-related diseases. Funding research gives us the best chance to find a treatment or a cure.

As of 2022, The RYR-1 Foundation has funded/committed over $1.7 million in RYR-1-related research. This has already led to important advances in knowledge and potential therapies. The RYR-1 Foundation grant recipients include:

  • János Almássy, PhD, University of Debrecen (Hungary): “Functional and Pharmacological Characterization of the T4709M Mutant Ryanodine Receptor at Single-Channel Level”
  • Alan Beggs, PhD, Harvard University (United States): “Drug Discovery for RYR-1 Myopathies Using Zebrafish Models”
  • Razvan L. Cornea, PhD, University of Minnesota (United States): “High-Throughput Screens to Discover Novel Modulators of Dysfunctional RYR-1 Channels for Therapeutic Development”
  • James Dowling, MD, PhD, University of Toronto (Canada): “Cas9-Mediated Point Mutagenesis of RYR-1”
  • James Dowling, MD, PhD, University of Toronto (Canada) and Robert Dirksen, PhD, University of Rochster (United States): “Drug Discovery and Validation for RYR-1-Related Myopathies”
  • Angela Dulhunty, MD, PhD, Australian National University (Australia): “Developing Animal Models with an RYR-1 Mutation and Clinical Phenotype for the Purpose of Evaluating Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of RYR-1 Disease”
  • Heinz Jungbluth, MD, PhD, King’s College (England): The prevalence of RYR1-related disease – an international, collaborative multicentre study
  • Alexander Kushnir, MD, PhD, Columbia University (United States): “RYR-1 Myopathy Database”
  • William R. Lagor, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (United States): “Targeted Removal of Pathogenic RYR-1 Alleles”
  • Jocelyn Laporte, PhD, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (France): “Therapeutic proof-of-concepts for RYR1-related myopathy”
 
  • Bradley S. Launikonis, PhD, The University of Queensland (Australia): “Assessment of the Ability of Small Molecule RYR-1 Modulators to Correct the Ca2+ Fluxes in Skeletal Muscle Fibers with RYR-1 Myopathy”
  • Andrew Marks, MD, Columbia University (United States) and Katherine Meilleur, PhD, CRNP, National Institutes of Health (United States): “Rycal Treatment in RYR-1-Related Myopathy Muscle Biopsies”
  • Vincenzo Sorrentino, MD, University of Siena (Italy): “Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Skeletal Muscles of Patients with Central Core Disease and other RYR-1-Related Myopathies: A Potential Mechanism of Disease and a Druggable Target”
  • Joshua J. Todd, PhD, CCRP, NIH (United States): “Mitoquinol Mesylate and N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for RYR-1-Related Myopathy”
  • Jacques Tremblay, PhD, Laval University (Canada): “PRIME editing correction of the T4709M mutation responsible for some cases of Ryanodine receptor type 1 (RYR1) related myopathies (RYR1 RM)”
  • Susan Treves, PhD, and Francesco Zorzato, MD, PhD, University of Basel (Switzerland): “Treatment of an animal model carrying recessive RYR1 mutations with HDAC/DNA methyltransferase inhibitors”
  • Filip Van Petegem, PhD, University of British Columbia (Canada): “Structural Investigation of Disease-Associated Mutations in the Ryanodine Receptor Pore and EF Hand Region”
  • Nicol Voermans, MD, PhD, Radboud University (The Netherlands): “A hot debate: the role of RYR1 in exertional heat-illnesses”
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