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The Path to Myozyme
Beginning in the 1960s and fueled by the biotechnology revolution in 1980s, researchers at academic centers around the world initiated work to identify a treatment for Pompe - including therapies that could replace the missing GAA enzyme in patients.
Based on these early efforts, from 1998-2002 Genzyme worked to advance promising research involving four different drug candidates to treat Pompe:
n. As such, this set of Essential Elements addresses a small number of science
standards, representing a breadth, but not depth, of coverage across the entire standards framework. The
purpose of the DLM Essential Elements is to build a bridge from the content in the general education
science framework to academic expectations for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
This version of the Essential Elements will provide content for science assessments for at least the next
two years. The DLM Science Consortium intends to develop a learning map based on research about
how students learn science content and engage in scientific and engineering practices in the next phase
of the project. Revisions will be made when the science map is complete, at which time we anticipate the
EEs will be aligned to the map with revisions and additions as appropriate.