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RESEARCH GRANTS
Danny Hatters
University of Melbourne, Australia
Tracking the cellular responses to Htt aggregation with new enabling tools.
David E. Housman and Zachary Crook
MIT
Pooled screening for Huntington’s Disease therapeutic targets in the mouse brain.
Mee Whi Kim
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Structural studies of mutant Huntingtin by X-ray crystallography.
Richard D. Mooney and Michale Fee
Duke University
Studying the Bird Brain to Solve Huntington's Disease Pilot Project. See description (above) of the August 2-3, 2011: "Studying the Bird Brain to Solve Huntington's Disease Workshop." Christian Neri
INSERM
Paris, France. How to overcome the early-stage inability of neurons to develop FOXO-mediated survival responses against mutant huntingtin.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Virginia Mattis
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Mentor: Clive Svendsen
A novel in vivo system to study Huntington’s disease using iPS cells.
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