TUCSON, Ariz. (April 15, 2010) — Forty-two medical researchers and their labs in the U.S., Australia and Canada have been awarded more than $21 million (A$22,659,000) in grants by the Muscular Dystrophy Association to advance critical neuromuscular research in 2010. Many of the grants are multiyear awards to be dispersed over the next three years.

