Funding Brilliant Science
The Hereditary Disease Foundation is excited to announce new grants and postdoctoral fellowships to thirteen scientists from around the world focused on finding treatments and cures for Huntington’s disease. We’ll bring you more details about their research projects in the months ahead.
Funded Recipients, Institutions, and Project Titles:
Jeff Carroll, PhD
University of Washington
Exploring the entire intact huntingtin genetic message in human brains
Katherine Croce, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center, NY
Mentor: Ai Yamamoto, PhD
Clearing aggregates to treat Huntington’s disease
Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
The J. David Gladstone Institutes; University of California, San Francisco
Investigation of ubiquitin regulators as genetic modifiers in Huntington’s disease age of onset
Joseph Hamilton, PhD
University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom
Mentor: Sarah J. Tabrizi, FRCP, PhD, FMedSci
Exploring the role of the PMS1 gene in Huntington’s disease
Rachel Harding, PhD
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Investigating how the Huntington’s disease protein interacts with genetic material
Ryan Hildebrandt, PhD
University of Florida
Mentor: Eric T. Wang, PhD
Investigating neuron transport issues in Huntington’s disease
Ali Khoshnan, PhD
University of Southern California
Studies on gut defects in Huntington’s disease
Tamara Maiuri, PhD
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Can we use DNA damage levels in HD patient blood to guide clinical trials?
Christopher E. Pearson, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Developing specific antibodies to explore Alt-RPA, a modifier of HD
Devon Pendlebury, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Mentor: Leslie M. Thompson, PhD
Investigating how DNA damage repair is faulty in Huntington’s disease
Partha Sarkar, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Loss of genome integrity in Huntington’s disease
Chiara Scaramuzzino, PhD
Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences-INSERM, France
Restoring organelle trafficking to rescue HD
William Yang, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Probing Huntingtin binding protein HAP40 in Cortical Biology and Huntington’s disease pathogenesis