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GRANTS FUNDED in 2000

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012


Recent Science Funding Provided by the Hereditary Disease Foundation

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Below is the list of research grants and postdoctoral fellowships funded in 2000.
(Applications are considered three times a year.)

Lieberman Award:

David Lovinger, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University for Development of Corticostriatal Synapsis in HD Model Mice

Milton Wexler Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Sylvia Krobitsch, Ph.D., (Mentor: Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.), University of Chicago for Yeast as a Model System for Investigating Huntingtin Toxicity and Developing Therapeutic Strategies (PDF)

Grants and John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowships:

Elizabeth Abercrombie, Ph.D., Rutgers University, for In Vivo Neurochemistry of Transgenic Mouse Models of HD: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies (G)

Mark Becher, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, for Intranuclear Neuronal Inclusions: A Novel Marker of Huntington’s Disease II (G)

Edward Bird, M.D., McLean Hospital, for Brain Tissue Resource Center (G)

Silvia Cavagnero, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, for Kinetic Pathways of Polyglutamine-Induced Protein Misfolding: A Systematic Investigation (G)

Karen Marder, M.D., Columbia University, for Huntington’s Disease Center for Research and Clinical Care (G)

Richard Morimoto, Ph.D., Northwestern University, for The Molecular Genetics of Polyglutamine Aggregate Toxicity (G)

David Sulzer, Ph.D., Columbia University, for Effect of Expanded CAG Repeats in Axon 1 of the Huntington’s Disease Gene in Postnatal Culture (G )

 

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