Posts by Julie Porter
Announcing the Recipient of the 2025 Leslie Gehry Prize for Innovation in Science
2025 Transformative Research Award Announced
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2025 Recipients of the Inaugural Huntington’s Disease Career Advancement Grant (HD-CAG)
The Huntington’s Disease Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural recipients of our Huntington’s Disease Career Advancement Grant (HD-CAG). This program stems from HDF President Nancy Wexler’s passion for supporting talent early-career investigators. Providing resources and tools to build the necessary skills will enable these researchers to bridge the difficult transition from postdoctoral position to tenure-track primary investigator. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that we continue to have an abundant pipeline of talented researchers focused on Huntington’s disease, from early stage-investigators through tenured positions. The 2025 recipients are: Chris Kay, PhDMentor: Michael Hayden, PhD, FRCP(C), FRSCInstitution: University of British
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Announcing the 2025 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize Recipient: Dr. Vanessa Casha
2025 Huntington’s Disease Foundation Funded Researchers
The Huntington’s Disease Foundation is proud to announce our 2025 postdoctoral fellowships and grants. We are awarding $1.8 million to scientists from around the world who are focused on finding treatments and cures for Huntington’s disease. Vanessa L. Casha, PhDMentor: Baljit Khakh, PhDUniversity of California, Los AngelesProject Title: Uncovering new therapies for Huntington’s disease by examining subcompartments in brain cells Francisco Garcia, PhDMentor: Myriam Heiman, PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeProject Title: Viruses targeting blood vessels in the brain as a therapeutic strategy for Huntington’s disease Shota Shibata, MD, PhDMentor: Ricardo Mouro Pinto, PhDMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, BostonProject Title: Developing a novel approach to monitoring Huntington’s disease progression Takeshi Uenaka, MD, PhDMentor: Marius
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