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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 2002.
(Applications are considered three times a year.)

Lieberman Award:

Russell Margolis, M.D., John Hopkins University,

Milton Wexler Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Cindy Voisine, Ph.D., (Mentor: Ann Hart), Massachusetts General Hospital, for Understanding the Mechanism of Polyglutamine Neurotoxicity

Grants and John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowships:

Ottavio Ariancio, Ph.D., Nathan Kline Institute, for Reversible Cognitive Impairment in Conditional Huntington’s Disease (G)

Craig Bailey, Ph.D., (Mentor: Gail Johnson), University of Alabama at Birmingham, for Role of Tissue Transglutaminase in Mouse Models of HD (PDF)

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

Patrik Brundin, Ph.D., Lund University, for Changes in Synaptic Function in the R6 Transgenic Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease (G)

Yury Chernoff, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, for Role of Protein Interactions Polyglutamine Toxicity in the Yeast Model (G)

Nicole Deglon, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, for Assessment of Lesion Specificity (G)

Claire-Anne Gutekunst, Ph.D., Emory University, for Topographic, Cellular and Subcellular Localization of Huntington Interactors in Control and HD Tissue (G)

Susan Jones, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, for Investigation of Early Changes in Corticostriatal Synaptic Transmission in Presynaptic Transgenic Mouse Models (G)

Kimberly Kegel, Ph.D., (Mentor: Marian DiFiglia) Massachusetts General Hospital, for Understanding Early Dystrophic Alterations in HD (PDF)

Karen Marder, Ph.D., Columbia University, for Center for Research and Clinical Care (G)

Michael Mihm, Ph.D., (Mentors: John A. Bauer and Kari Hoyt) Ohio State University, for Cardiac Failure in HD (PDF)

Quentin Pankhurst, Ph.D., University of College London, for Role of Magnetic Biomineralization in HD (G)

Tzu-Kang Sang, Ph.D., (Mentor: George Jackson), University of California, Los Angeles, for p47 and p97 as Potential Modifiers of HD (PDF)

Akira Sawa, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, for Role of Gylceraldehyes-3 Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDSH) in HD Pathology (G)

Ira Shoulson, M.D., University of Rochester, for Minocycline in HD Trials (G)

George Yohrling, Ph.D., (Mentor: Jang-Ho Cha, M.D., Ph.D.) Massachusetts General Hospital, for Alterations of the Histone Code in HD (PDF)

Hui Zhou, Ph.D., (Mentor: Xiao-Jiang Li), Emory University, for Characterization of N-Terminal Huntingtin Fragments (PDF)

 

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