News from the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center

We invite you to view this lecture by Drs. Lisa Christopher-Stine and Andrew Mammen on the topic of Statin-associated autoimmune myopathy: from bedside to bench and back again. View Presentation

ANNOUNCEMENTS: We are pleased to inform you that the Follistatin gene transfer for inclusion-body myositis has cleared its last regulatory hurdle and recruitment of patients begins this December.  The trial to […]

Myositis is a painful, debilitating muscle disease in which the immune system attacks healthy muscle tissue. Its chief symptom is muscle weakness, but because it so closely resembles other diseases, […]