Jessica Curran is a DMD mother to her son Conner, CRD board member as well as a DMD patient advocate.

My name is Katie Kuhl and I am a junior in high school right now. I am mostly focused on school and am involved in the math team, DECA, pre-med club, student council, and volunteering at my local animal shelter…

Elijah Stacy is the founder of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Destroy Duchenne, which he started at the age of fifteen. He is determined to advance gene editing and gene therapy to save his life, his brother’s life, and the lives of thousands of people around the globe who have been diagnosed with Duchenne.

Gene therapy is the future of treating rare, genetic diseases that were previously thought to have no cure. CRD is breaking down what gene therapy is and how we are using gene therapy to develop therapies for neuromuscular diseases including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy subtypes, and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3).