December ‘14 Issue The year in review & current stats Centralizin g tissueFamily visitors to the CMD-TRGet Counted campaign Supporters Stacy Cossette, CMD TR ManagerWelcome to the CMD TR With a vision and a committed team, we launched the Congenital Muscle Disease Tissue Repository (CMD-TR) in May of 2013 and have grown more ra pidly than expe cted. The CMD-TR specializes in centralizing tissue samples from most subtypes of congenital muscle diseases to make these specimens available to scientists to help accelerate treatme nt discovery. Exceeding GoalsWhile we projected to enroll and collect tissue from 5 to 10 participants during our first year, we have exceeded our goals with 40 enrolled and 19 unique tissue donors that have contributed over 60 muscle specimens and 56 other tissue specimens . We have also developed cell lines on 4 unique donor subtypes. Northwind Traders NewsletterMay 2 16 CMD-TR is now accepting tissue donation s f rom most English-speakin g regions of the world with plans to include Spanish next. Banked Tissue Subtypes Represented at the CMD-TR NM MTM αDGP CMD NOS CNM
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The Congenital Muscle Disease Tissue Repository (CMD-TR) at The Medical College of Wisconsin
is a place to store body tissues that are donated after diagnostic testing is complete, through routinesurgery, or at autopsy. These tissues are useful to the world’s leading scientists to accelerate
treatment discovery. Centralizing tissue access will make it easier for scientists to obtain appropriate
numbers of samples for research efforts.
For a list of all muscle disorder subtypes centralized at the CMD-TR, please visit our partner website
of the Congenital Muscle Disease International Registry at www.cmdir.org. While there, please
register with the subtype you or your loved one has, if you have not already done so. Tutorials are
available to help walk you through the registration process and completing the initial questionnaire.
Please email [email protected] with any questions and to receive help getting registered.
Support for the CMD-TR has been generously provided by:
Cure CMD, A Foundation Building Strength for Nemaline
Myopathy (AFBS), Where There’s a Will There’s a Cure, the
Joshua Frase Foundation; (JFF), the Foye, Rutkowski, andScoggins families, the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Foundation, and the Children’s Research Institute .
Pictured above from left to right: Sarah Foye is one of our CMD-TR Family Liaisons,Stacy Cossette is the Repository’s Manager, and Dr. Michael Lawlor is the