Dr. Gillian Bates, Guy's
Hospital, London, for her project entitled "Maintenance
and Expansion of Colonies of Mice Transgenic for the HD
CAG expansion of the neurological phenotype."
Dr. Edward D. Bird, McLean
Hospital for "Brain Tissue Research Center"
Dr. Jang-Ho John Cha,
Massachusetts General Hospital for "The Role of
Huntingtin in Striatal Excitotoxicity"
Dr. Frank Costantini and
Chengyu Liu, Columbia University, for their project
entitled "Transgenic Mouse Models of Huntington
Disease."
Dr. Fred H. Gage. The Salk
Institute for "Growth Factor-Induced Neurogenesis in the
Striatum of the Adult Rat"
Dr. Harley Kornblum, University
of California, Los Angeles, for his project entitled
"The Role of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in
Selective Neuronal Survival in Huntington's Disease."
Dr. Jose Lucas (PDF), Columbia
University for "Role of 5-HT 1B/1D Receptors in the
Pathophysiology of Huntington's Disease"
Dr. Marcy MacDonald,
Massachusetts General Hospital, for her project entitled
"Identification of Proteins that Interact with Normal
and Huntington's Disease huntingtin."
Dr. Robert Maue, Dartmouth
Medical School, for his project entitled "Regulation of
Striatal Neuron Differentiation by Neurotrophic
Factors."
Drs. Christopher Ross, Donald Price,
David Borchelt and Philip Wong, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, for their project
entitled "A Transgenic Model for Huntington's Disease."
The
special
Lieberman Award was granted to Dr. Jacqueline White,
Massachusetts General Hospital, for her postdoctoral
fellowship project entitled "Generation and Analysis of
a Murine Model for Huntington's Disease." Dr. White will
be doing her work in Dr. Marcy MacDonald's laboratory.
Dr. Anne Young, Massachusetts General Hospital for
"Preclinical Assessments of Potential Therapeutic Agents
in Huntington's Disease"
Dr. Jenny Morton, University of
Cambridge, for her project entitled "Characterization of
Neuronal Loss in Early Huntington's Disease: Will 3-NP
Make a Suitable Animal Model?"
Dr. Laising Yen, Yale University,
for his postdoctoral fellowship project entitled
"External Guide Sequence-Directed Cleavage of the NMDA
Receptor Subunit NRI mRNA and Mutant Huntingtin mRNA."
Drs. Scott Zeitlin and Argiris
Efstratiadis, Columbia University, for their project
entitled "Conditional Disruption of the Hdh Gene and
Rescue of Early Embryonic Lethality in Mice Nullizygous
for the Hdh Gene."
