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GRANTS FUNDED in 2003

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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 2003.
(Applications are considered three times a year.)

Lieberman Award:

Lynn Raymond, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, for Molecular Mechanisms of Enhanced Excitotoxicity in YAC Transgenic Mouse Models of HD.

Milton Wexler Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Edoardo Marcora, Ph.D. (Mentor: Mary B. Kennedy, Ph.D.) California Institute of Technology for Huntingtin and PSD-95: Does Huntingtin Have a Signaling Role In Dendrites and Synapses? (PDF)

Grants and John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowships:

Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, for Association of InsP3R1 with HAP1 and Huntington Proteins in the Brain: Implications for HD (G)

Sarah Broadley, Ph.D., (Mentor: F. Ulrich Hartl), Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Germany, for Identification of Factors Influencing the Cellular Effects of Polyglutamine-Expanded Huntingtin (PDF)

Jamie Cearley, Ph.D., (Mentor: Peter Detloff, Ph.D.) University of Alabama for Wildtype Htt: Its Role in HD and Function in the Adult Mouse (PDF)

Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D., (Mentor: R. Mark Wightman) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for The Direct Measure of Dopamine Release in HD transgenic Mice in the Sub-Second Timescale (PDF)

Joonil Jung, Ph.D., (Mentor: Nancy Bonini), University of Pennsylvania / Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Molecular Genetic Study of Triplet Repeat Instability in Drosophila (PDF)

Jeffrey Keller, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Mechanisms Responsible For and Involvement of, Elevated Levels of p53 in HD-Associated Neurodegeneration (G)

Vikas Palhan, Ph.D., Rockefeller University (Mentor: R.G. Roeder, Ph.D.) for Role Ataxin-7 in Mediating Transcriptional Regulation and Curing SCA7 by RNAi (PDF)

Yvon Trottier, Ph.D., Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Molecular Basis of PolyQ-Induced Toxicity in Retina Model (G)

 

 
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