Columbia, MD — December 3, 2025 — The Myositis Association (TMA) is proud to announce a new research partnership with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to co-fund a groundbreaking study…
Continue Reading
TMA Funding Supports Early Career Researcher
By Begum Horuluoglu, PhD Thanks to the generous support of The Myositis Association (TMA), I have been able to pursue groundbreaking research into the immunological mechanisms underlying idiopathic inflammatory myopathies,…
Continue Reading
Nobel Prize for Autoimmunity Advances Brings Hope to Those with Myositis
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists—Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—for discoveries that help explain why the immune system sometimes…
Continue Reading
New Study Reveals Impact of Inclusion Body Myositis on US Veterans
A newly published study by Dr. Vladimir M. Liarski in the journal Military Medical Research offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of inclusion body myositis (IBM) among US veterans. Drawing on data from the Veterans Administration…
Continue Reading
Help for coping with IBM
Results of a patient-led research project Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series of articles from Dr. Kevin Austin, Adjunct Professor in the Health Futures Institute’s Personalized…
Continue Reading