by Kevin Dooley, MD | Apr 22, 2019 | News and Information
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT are looking for patients with inclusion body myositis (IBM) to participate in a study using Electrical Impedance Myography (EIM). The purpose of the study is to learn if EIM is useful for measuring the... 
by Kevin Dooley, MD | Mar 27, 2019 | News and Information
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has confirmed the cancellation of its previously announced Phase 2 clinical trial for inclusion body myositis (IBM). Regeneron had planned to test two therapies in combination to treat this rare muscle disease, which causes gradually... 
by Kevin Dooley, MD | Jan 17, 2019 | News and Information
Registration for the 2019 Million Dollar Bike Ride is now open! You can now join Team Cure IBM and register to be a rider in the Million Dollar Bike Ride on June 8, 2019, in Philadelphia. Sponsored by the Orphan Disease Center of the University of Pennsylvania, this... 
by Kevin Dooley, MD | Jan 7, 2019 | News and Information
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, has announced the opening of an IBM Specialty Clinic devoted to inclusion body myositis. The clinic is run by Dr. Conrad “Chris” Weihl, a leading IBM clinician and researcher. Washington University is known... 
by Kevin Dooley, MD | Dec 18, 2018 | News and Information
Cure IBM is delighted to announce that we have been selected to participate in the Million Dollar Bike Ride in Philadelphia, PA, on Saturday, June 8, 2019! Sponsored by the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this annual festival brings together... 
by Kevin Dooley, MD | Dec 5, 2018 | News and Information
In sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), which comes first: inflammation or degeneration? Dr. Christopher Lindberg and his team of researchers in Sweden recently attempted to answer this question. Both of these disease processes are present in the muscles in IBM,... 