These questions led to the formation of Project Mercury, a patient-led collaborative global initiative to ensure timely access to effective and affordable treatments for people affected by facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) everywhere.
Project Mercury publishes its Interim Progress Report 2023–2025 — a document that captures two years of coordinated, patient-led effort to prepare the world for FSHD therapies. When Project Mercury launched in 2023, the challenge was clear: promising treatments in the pipeline would mean little if the systems needed to deliver
From 1–3 May 2026, representatives from Project Mercury participated in the 295th ENMC International Workshop on “Harmonizing Clinical Monitoring in FSHD”, held in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. The workshop brought together leading clinicians, physical therapists, outcomes researchers, industry representatives, and patient organizations with a shared objective: to move toward global consensus
In April, the Project Mercury Global Task Force (GTF) convened virtually for its quarterly meeting, bringing together patient advocacy leaders, clinicians, researchers, and partners from across regions. Building on the momentum described in our previous update, this meeting focused on turning alignment into execution as the initiative enters its final
This project is supported by the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU) under grant agreement No 101132943. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, COCIR, EFPIA, EuropaBio, MedTech Europe, Vaccines Europe (and the FSHD Society and TREAT-NMD Services Ltd as contributing beneficiaries participating in the project). The project will also receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant numbers 10105921, 10103989, and 10083579].
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