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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 1998.
(Applications are considered three times a year.)

Dr. Leslie ThompsonThe special Lieberman Award was granted to Dr. Leslie Thompson, University of California Irvine, for her project entitled "Cellular mechanisms of triplet repeat pathogenesis."

 

Dr. Valerie Bolivar (PDF), Wadsworth Center, for "Examining striatal integrity through detailed analyses of grooming behavior in the Huntington's disease (HD) transgenic mouse."

Dr. Anne Hart, Massachusetts General Hospital, for "C. elegans Model of Huntington's Disease."

Dr. Chris Huang (PDF), Massachusetts General Hospital, for "Characterization of the amyloid-like aggregates of huntingtin and the relevance to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease."

Dr. Jang-Ho Cha, Massachusetts General Hospital, "mRNA alterations in transgenic Huntingtons disease mice"

Dr. Shawn Handran, Massachusetts General Hospital, "In vivo interactions of huntingtin using fret"

Dr. Robert E. Hughes (Milton Wexler PDF), University of Washington, "Studies of polyglutamine in yeast"
 

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