Research

Meeting with professor Jérôme Frenette about osteoprotegerin (OPG). We are producing a video series of interviews with Canadian researchers working on DMD. We have met many professors, and our [...]

Steve J. Winder, PhD Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Director of Postgraduate Teaching, Director of External Relations, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, United [...]

Professor George Dickson   Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Royal Holloway University of London In the third interview of our series “Portrait of Duchenne”, La Fondation La Force talks [...]

Being on the receiving end of a diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a very difficult event for parents. Marie-Catherine Du Berger, creator of La Force Foundation knows something about it. [...]

  In the first interview of our series “Portrait of Duchenne,” La Force DMD talks with Dr. Jeffrey Chamberlain, a geneticist at the University of Washington, Seattle, about [...]

Utrophin could potentially replace dystrophin. In people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), dystrophin does not function properly. Numerous media outlets have recently reported many exciting [...]

La Force is proud to announce its participation in the funding of a promising research project on osteoprotegerin, also known as “OPG”. Invited to Boston by the Duchenne Alliance specialists [...]

When you’re suffering from a fatal (orphan) disease for which there is no cure, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, each year, month, day, hour and second that separates you from a potential [...]

The year 2015 ended with the announcement of great news for the DMD community. Indeed, the scientific community has been voicing much enthusiasm at the discovery of a genetic engineering [...]