The Food and Drug Administration outlined a possible pathway that would grant accelerated approval to a drug with the potential to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the disease Dance Marathon raised...
Before Marissa Penrod was the founder and CEO of a nonprofit, she was a mother.
When Penrod’s son, Joseph, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2008, she wanted to create an organization...
Though dancers started to get lethargic in the early hours of Saturday morning, they were quickly reminded why they had committed to dance for 30 hours.
Katie Penrod, a representative of Team Joseph...
Northwestern students will pack the Dance Marathon tent Friday to spend 30 hours dancing for Team Joseph as the primary beneficiary petitions for approval for one of the first promising treatments for...
The Dance Marathon fundraising season has begun at Northwestern, and dancers have already been doing their best to fill cans with spare change.
Some students and groups, however,decided to stray from...
