The Center for NeuroGenetics (CNG) will integrate molecular, genetic and clinical approaches to define the causes of neurodegenerative disease and develop effective treatment strategies. Impact and Burden of Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease Genetic disorders that affect the nervous and muscular systems are responsible for a large number of devastating diseases…
Dr. Kaalak Reddy, who is currently continuing his post-doctoral training in the lab of Dr. Andy Berglund here at the Center for NeuroGenetics, has been awarded the prestigious Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (MDF) Fellowship. Dr. Reddy completed his Honours BSc in Genetics in 2006 at Western University in London, Canada.
The study will help determine if lead compounds recently identified in the Berglund lab can be developed as treatments for DM.
Please join us in congratulating Drs. Maurice Swanson and Tetsuo Ashizawa! At this year’s 10th International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium Meeting, held in Paris, they each won an award for the work they do pertaining to Myotonic Dystrophy. Dr. Maurice Swanson was…
Promise to Kate Graduate Student Fellowships Promise To Kate (PTK) has provided very generous support for two Ph.D. level graduate student fellowships at 50% effort for 1 year (2017-2018). These funds will include tuition, benefits, and stipend. Awardees must devote at least 50% of their effort to research that will benefit basic insights…
Dr. Sznajder, in his proposal “Myotonic dystrophy type 2: mouse models, pathomechanism and therapy” plans to use recently developed techniques in genetic engineering to generate novel mouse models for DM2.
Appointment to a professorship or chair is one of the highest honors a college can bestow on a faculty member and is reserved for scholars of national and international acclaim.
Congratulations Dr. Laura Ranum! The Basic Science Research Award was presented to our director, Dr. Laura Ranum, at the 2015 Annual College of Medicine Celebration of Faculty this April. Please join us in congratulating her in receiving the highest award the college bestows…
Jana Jenquin, BSc Please join us in congratulating Jana Jenquin for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Jana Jenquin is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Andy Berglund’s Lab.
Scotti, a Postdoc in the Ranum Lab, was recently awarded a two-year minority fellowship from the National Institutes for Health
