Latest Discoveries

These latest Huntington’s disease discoveries were made possible by funding from the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

Abdellatif Benrais, PhD
University of Rochester

X. William Yang, MD, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Judith Frydman, PhD
Stanford University

Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga, PhD
Stanford University

Andrew S. Yoo, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

James Mackay, PhD
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Terence Gall-Duncan, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carolina Gubert, PhD
Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health/University of Melbourne, Australia

Rivka Dikstein, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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