Posts by Julie Porter
2026 Huntington’s Disease Foundation Funded Researchers
The Huntington’s Disease Foundation is proud to announce our 2026 postdoctoral fellowships and grants. We have awarded over $2 million to scientists from around the world who are focused on finding treatments and cures for Huntington’s disease. Andrew Jiang, PhDMentor: Vanessa Wheeler, PhDMassachusetts General HospitalHarvard Medical School, BostonProject Title: Understanding why some people develop Huntington’s symptoms later – and what their genes can teach us Won-Seok Lee, PhDMentor: Steven McCarroll, PhDEli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MAProject Title: How accumulation of the Huntington’s disease protein harms patients’ brain cells Marta Prieto García, PhDMentor: Frederic Saudou, PhDFloralis UGA Filiale, FranceProject Title: Reducing
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HDF Welcomes New Director of Development
Nancy Wexler featured in Time Magazine
Nancy Wexler featured in HD Insights Spring 2026 Issue
Nancy Wexler interviewed by Columbia University
Nancy S. Wexler’s Memoir “My Life, My Science” Available Now
Huntington’s Disease Foundation – New Name, Same Mission
Announcing the Recipient of the 2025 Leslie Gehry Prize for Innovation in Science
2025 Transformative Research Award Announced
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CAG mutation, Dr. Christopher Pearson, Dr. Jay Schneekloth, Dr. Jeffery Kelly, Foundation funding, grants, HD, HDF grant, Hospital for Sick Children, HTT gene, Huntington's Disease Foundation, Huntington's Disease Foundation funding, huntingtons disease, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, research grants, Scripps Research Institute, SickKids, Toronto Canada, and TRA.