Highlights from HDF-Funded Young Investigators
Thursday, November 14, 12-1pm ET
Katherine Croce, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Joseph Hamilton, PhD
University College London (UCL)
Chiara Scaramuzzino, PhD
Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France
2023 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize Recipient
About the Speakers
Katherine Croce
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Mentor: Ai Yamamoto, PhD
Katherine is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Yamamoto lab at Columbia University. The focus of her research investigates how protein aggregation and accumulation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington’s disease. She is currently working on a potential therapeutic approach to combat this issue with the goal of slowing disease in animal models.
Joseph Hamilton, PhD
University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom
Mentor: Sarah J. Tabrizi, FRCP, PhD, FMedSci
Joe’s postdoctoral work covers the exploration of DNA repair proteins as modifiers of Huntington’s disease pathogenesis, with a primary focus on somatic expansion of the HTT CAG repeat. He currently works on the role of PMS1 in Huntington’s disease.
Chiara Scaramuzzino, PhD
Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France
2023 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize Recipient
Dr. Scaramuzzino carried out her postdoctoral training with Dr. Frederic Saudou, investigating communication between brain cells using microscopic chips that mimic circuitry in the brain. She recently accepted an independent position and is focused on defining molecular mechanisms underlying the breakdown of brain cell communication in neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s.
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