GRANTS FUNDED in 1999

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Recent Science Funding Provided by the Hereditary Disease Foundation

Below is the list of research grants and postdoctoral fellowships funded in 1999.
(Applications are considered three times a year.)

During 1999, the Hereditary Disease Foundation voted to
fund four grants and six postdoctoral fellowships (PDF).
The funded grants and fellowships follow:

NAME & INSTITUTION	PROJECT TITLE
Dr. Marjorie Ariano Chicago Medical School	"Difference in dopamine receptor protein properties in striatal neuron population: use of HDâs transgenic mice"
Dr. Nagi Ayad (PDF) Harvard Medical School	"Regulation of Huntingtin Protein Ubiquitin Mediated Proteolysis"
Dr. Wenzhen Duan (PDF) Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky	"Participation of Par-4 in the Degeneration of Striatal Neurons in Huntingtonâs Disease"
Dr. Roy Dyer (PDF) Mayo Clinic	"Huntingtonâs Disease: proteolysis, aggregation and disruptions in vesicle transport"
Dr. Douglas Frost University of Maryland, Baltimore	"Neurotrophin Signaling in Huntingtonâs Disease"
Dr. Michael Kaytor (PDF) Emory University	"Huntingtin Aggregation: Mechanism of Formation and Cellular Consequences"
Dr. Cynthia McMurray Mayo Clinic	"Identification of proteins in HD aggregates"
Dr. Alyson Peel (PDF) Buck Center for Research in Aging	"Intrastriatal gene transfer for the investigation and treatment of Huntingtonâs disease"