Research Grant Award Summaries
The following received research grant funding from the National Ataxia Foundation for the fiscal year of 2006. A summary of the completed research studies will be published in Generations in 2007.
- Deranged calcium signaling in SCA 3 neurons, Ilya Bezprozvanny, PhD
- Development of a mouse model for spinocerebellar ataxia with neuropathy, Cornelius F. Boerkoel III
- A mouse model for X-linked Congenital Ataxia-histological and behavioral study in OPHN 1 knockout mice, Joseph G. Gleeson, MD
- Genetic programs regulation cell fate decisions in the rhombic lip, a birth site of neurons affected in ataxias, Rebecca L. Landsberg, PhD
- The Role of Interruptions in SCA 10 expansion and disease, Tohru Matsuura, MD
- Lentiviral vector-based silencing of ataxia-3, Luis Pereira de Almeida, PD, MSc, PhD
- A Novel Ataxia in a Pedigree from the Philippines, Stefan M Pulst, MD
- New tools to study autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS), Andrea Richter, PhD
- Determination of the mitochondrial functional role of frataxin and the mechanisms that underlie the progressive neurodegeneration in Friedreich's ataxia using Drosophila, Alexander P Runko, PhD
- Investigating Gluten-Dependent Autoimmunity as a possible cause of Sporadic Ataxia, Enrico Tongiorgi, PhD
- Boat, an AXH domain protein, suppresses the cytotoxicity of Ataxin-1, Chih-Cheng Tsai, PhD
- Genetic and molecular characterization of SCA 26, Guo-Yun Yu, PhD (FA)
