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, PhD
Mentor: Vanessa Wheeler, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Project Title: Understanding why some people develop Huntington’s symptoms later – and what their genes can teach us
Won-Seok Lee, PhD
Mentor: Steven McCarroll, PhD
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute
of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
Project Title: How accumulation of the Huntington’s disease protein harms patients’ brain cells
Marta Prieto García, PhD
Mentor: Frederic Saudou, PhD
Floralis UGA Filiale, France
Project Title: Reducing toxic stress to protect the brain in Huntington’s disease
Colby Samstag, PhD
Mentor: Jeff Carroll, PhD
University of Washington
School of Medicine, Seattle
Project Title: Using emerging scientific tools to test a new idea about the Huntington’s disease gene
Sonja Blumenstock, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Project Title: Restoring healthy communication between brain cells in Huntington’s disease
Veronica Ines Brito, PhD
University of Barcelona, Spain
Project Title: A DNA repair activity measurement to evaluate emerging Huntington’s disease therapies
Katherine Croce, PhD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY
Project Title: Examining how aggregate clearance improves Huntington’s disease brain cells
Steven Goldman, MD, PhD University of Rochester, NY
Project Title: Establishing how healthy brain cells can replace diseased cells in Huntington’s disease
David Housman, PhD
With Chris Ng, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Project Title: Targeting DNA repair to reduce repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease
Recipient, 2010 Leslie Gehry Prize for Innovation in Science
Icnelia Huerta Ocampo, MD, PhD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Project Title: Assessing the therapeutic impact of gene-silencing strategies across brain cell types in Huntington’s disease
Chris Kay, PhD
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Project Title: Understanding how the expanded DNA repeat that causes Huntington’s disease is related to atrophy in the brain
Christopher Ng, PhD
With David Housman, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Project Title: Targeting DNA repair to reduce repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease
Anna Pluciennik, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Project Title: Enhancing the function of FAN1 enzyme for Huntington’s disease therapeutics
Lynn A. Raymond, PhD, MD University of British Columbia, Canada
Project Title: Role of altered inhibitory drive in brain pathology of Huntington’s disease
Charlene Smith, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Project Title: Defining molecular drivers of mitochondrial dysfunction in Huntington’s disease
Eric T. Wang, PhD
University of Florida, Gainesville
Project Title: What causes the Huntingtin protein exon 1 fragment to form, and do different CAG repeat sequence variants form it more readily?