April 25, 2008
Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation
60 Thomas Johnson Drive
Frederick, MD 21702
Dear Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation,
Thanks for your generous support of the Muscular Dystrophy Association through the Harrisonburg Lockup. Your gift to the Association of $900 dated on 4/1/08 is very much appreciated, and will be put to the best possible use in the Association's research and health care services programs benefiting children and adults with neuromuscular diseases.
MDA has come a long way in research to stop muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis and related neuromuscular diseases. One day, neuromuscular disorders will be among those diseases that have been conquered by the determination of scientific investigators and the generous support of the American public.
The central aims of MDA's research program in genetic neuromuscular diseases are to provide genes, proteins or cells that restore missing muscle or nerve proteins; block the synthesis of abnormal muscle or nerve proteins; and develop medications that compensate for missing or abnormal proteins and increase strength. Efforts in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are aimed at preserving nerve cells and understanding the process by which they die. And efforts in MDA's autoimmune disorders, such as myositis and myasthenia gravis, have as their goal the suppression of disease-causing activity by the immune system, with preservation of its normal
functions.
You're helping the Association continue its rapid progress in search of effective treatments for neuromuscular disorders. Until treatments are developed, your generous support will also help people with neuromuscular diseases in this area through MDA's comprehensive program of medical services coordinated through the Association's clinics at Children's National Medical Center and Georgetown University Medical Center.
Best wishes . . .
Sincerely,
Jill Steuter
District Director
MDA - Greater Washington
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