{"id":1731004,"date":"2025-06-17T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/faculty\/faculty-listing\/lhp3n\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:18:12","slug":"lhp3n","status":"publish","type":"faculty-listing","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/faculty\/faculty-listing\/lhp3n\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips, Lawrence H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Phillips&rsquo; research is center in the Clinical Electromyography Laboratory.&nbsp; It is clinically based in neuromuscular disease, and much of it is done in collaboration with other investigators at the University of Virginia and other institutions. <\/SPAN><\/p>\n<p><EM>Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis:<\/EM>&nbsp; The research involves multi-center treatment trials of various proposed therapies for ALS.&nbsp; Past trials have included glutamate antagonists&nbsp; such as riluzole and various neurotrophic factors, including insulin-like growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and ciliary neurotrophic factor.&nbsp; Current trials include creatine and pramipexole. <\/SPAN><\/p>\n<p><EM>Myasthenia Gravis<\/EM>:&nbsp; The research is devoted to multi-center treatment trials of new immunosuppressive drugs for myasthenia gravis.&nbsp; Current trials are testing the effect of mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept) as an immunosuppressive drug in patients with myasthenia.&nbsp; Trials in the planning stages include a study of the effect of low-dose Prednisone on the natural history of ocular myasthenia and a study of the efficacy of thymectomy on the course of generalized myasthenia.&nbsp; Additional research is devoted to the development of clinical research standards in myasthenia gravis. <\/SPAN><\/p>\n<p><EM>Epidemiology of Neuromuscular Diseases:<\/EM>&nbsp; Investigations into the epidemiology of myasthenia gravis and other neuromuscular diseases utilize classical population-based studies and meta-analysis of the literature. <\/SPAN><\/p>\n<p><EM>Axonal excitability testing:<\/EM>&nbsp; Studies into the behavior of ion channels in peripheral motor nerve using axonal excitability measures are ongoing.&nbsp; The purpose of this research is to expand the role of nerve conduction testing in various diseases of peripheral nerve and muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1734454,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"otheraff":[],"phd-degree":[],"primary":[2354],"research-discipline":[],"research-opportunity":[],"training-grant":[],"class_list":["post-1731004","faculty-listing","type-faculty-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","primary-neurology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Phillips, Lawrence H. - Research Faculty Directory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/faculty\/faculty-listing\/lhp3n\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phillips, Lawrence H. - Research Faculty Directory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Phillips&rsquo; research is center in the Clinical Electromyography Laboratory.&nbsp; It is clinically based in neuromuscular disease, and much of it is done in collaboration with other investigators at the University of Virginia and other institutions. 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