Scientific Advisory Board News
Fantastic news! HDF Scientific Advisory Board member Leslie Thompson and team at UC Irvine awarded $1.4 million to study Huntington's disease. [click here to read article]
Paul
Patterson, HDF Scientific Advisory Board member, and his
team have discovered a way to stimulate neural
stem cell growth.
HDF
SAB Member Bev Davidson - SAB member Bev Davidson
was elected as a Fellow in the AAAS Section on Medical
Sciences. The American Association for the Advancement
of Science Members Elected as Fellows In October, 2006,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science
elected 449 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals
will be recognized for their contributions to science
and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 17 February
2007 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The new Fellows will receive a certificate and a blue
and gold rosette as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments.
HDF Scientific Advisory Board member, Beverly Davidson,
Ph.D., the Roy J. Carver Professor in Internal Medicine
Professor in Neurology, and Physiology & Biophysics
Roy J. and Lucille J. Carver College of Medicine University
of Iowa, was elected as one of the fellows in the section
on Medical Sciences. For more information go to: http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2006.shtml.
HDF
SAB Member Named President of MIT - Susan Hockfield,
a member of our Scientific Advisory
Board, has been named president of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. May 03, 2006
The Nobel Assembly
at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 jointly
to: October 07, 2002 - Sydney Brenner, H.
Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their discoveries
concerning "genetic regulation of organ development and
programmed cell death."
Gillian Bates, M.Sc, Ph.D - September 7, 2001 - Former Hereditary Disease Foundation, Science Advisory Board Memeber, Gillian Bates, M.Sc, Ph.D was recently awarded the K.J. Zulch-Prize by the Max-Planck-Society for her research on Huntington's disease.
H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D., - August 30, 2001 - Hereditary Disease Foundation, Science Advisory Board Memeber, H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D., Receives The Bristol-Myers Squibb Award For Distinguished Achievement In Neuroscience Research.
Therapeutic Opportunities in Polyglutamine Disease Nature Medicine. April 2001. Research towards a therapeutic drug in many polyglutamine diseases with a focus on Huntington's Disease. Drs. Bob Hughes and Jim Olson are two of the many HD researchers who have been instrumental in the steady progress towards therapeutic interventions.
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