NCART Seeks Manager of Payer Relations
The National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology (NCART) is seeking a Manager of Payer Relations who will be “responsible for implementing and managing the NCART State Advocacy Program,” according to the organization’s website. “The individual will monitor, analyze, report and work with a team of dedicated payer and regulatory professionals on legislative and regulatory issues. The individual will also build a team, develop, coordinate and lead NCART initiatives in various state to protect consumers’ access for CRT [Complex Rehab Technology] equipment.”
For more information about job responsibilities and qualifications, visit the NCART website.
Cure SMA Awards Research Grant
Cure SMA has awarded a $150,000 grant to Allison Ebert, Ph.D., The Medical College of Wisconsin, for her research project “The role of teneurin 4 and actin dynamics in SMA [spinal muscular atrophy] astrocyte perisynaptic processes.”
In a March 8 announcement, Cure SMA noted that Ebert’s SMA research history goes back to her postdoctoral fellow days, when she worked “to develop a new human stem cell model for SMA.”
“Today, Dr. Ebert leads a basic science lab where her research group studies how non-neuronal cells contribute to motor neuron loss in neurological diseases,” the organization said. In 2023, Cure SMA awarded a total of $750,000 to six researchers “to pursue our basic research priorities and objectives.”
