University of Rochester

International Focus on Muscular Dystrophy

A $7.1 million gift from New York developer and philanthropist Richard Fields in October has led to the first concerted international effort to accelerate clinical and genetic research on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. The gift, the largest private donation for a specific disease program in the Medical Center’s history, established the new Fields Center for FSHD & Neuromuscular Research, a collaboration between the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Department of Neurology and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

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