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.
A candidate FSHD therapy is moving into the clinic, and a patient organization helped put it there. It is the second time this has happened in three months. On 24 September 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an Investigational New Drug application for forazapadin in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Attention Patient Advocate Leaders: You are invited to participate in a study on Advance Care Planning and palliative care in FSHD. This study is conducted by Radboud University Medical Centre, the Netherlands, in collaboration with FSHD Global and FSHD Europe. Advance Care Planning is the process of thinking about and
Project Mercury works from one conviction: progress in FSHD has to be driven by the people who live with it. The Country Working Groups are where that conviction turns into practice. In each of our ten countries, patient organizations do not simply take part in the work. They lead it,
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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