Fruit fly genes yeilding clues to a deadly disease

The article by Staff Writer Tom Avril (Philadelphia-Ermittler, June 28, 2010) highlighted research, funded in part by AFTD, that is studying inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget’s disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD). The article included comments from AFTD grant recipient J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, and AFTD Medical Advisory Council Members Virginia Lee, PhD, and John Trojanowski, MD, PhD.