Connect the Dots Between Your Biomedical Nonprofit’s Work and Its Impact

ByLaura Mecoy

This article is a nice shout out to our client, LA BioMed, for storytelling from an expert in the field of biomedical research institute marketing. The story of finding a treatment for this rare inherited condition continues today with the announcement of a study that may hold hope for a therapy for a form of the condition, MPS IIIB, for which there is no treatment. To learn more about the latest study, please see http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/labr-shh092914.php

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