UCI awarded 5-year, $4.2M grant to study rare muscle disorder affecting aging Americans

(University of California - Irvine) The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has awarded UCI a 5-year, $4.2 million grant to study sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), which affects aging adults causing asymmetric muscle weakness and severe disability. The disease is currently untreatable and poorly understood.