Research Funding for 2006
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Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Basic Science Grant
Paul Hagerman, MD, PhD - $100,000
UC Davis School of Medicine
Pathogenesis
of FXTAS
Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Clinical Grant
Joanne Roberts, PhD - $99,479
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Language and Autism in Boys with FXS
RESULTS: Final Report: Language and Autism in Boys with
Fragile X Syndrome (11/1/06-4/30/09)
Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Clinical Grant
Laurie Yankowitz, PhD- $5,462
Teachers College, Columbia University
To Look or Not to Look: Effects of Prompting for Eye Contact on Task Performance in Boys with FXS and Boys with Autism
RESULTS: Effects of Prompting for Eye Contact on Task
Performance in Boys with Fragile X Syndrome and Boys with Autism
Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Basic Science Grant
Dalit Ben-Yosef, PhD - $100,000
Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Developmental study of FXS using human embryonic stem cells derived from preimplantation genetically diagnosed embryos
RESULTS: Embryonic stem cell study uncovers mechanism for Fragile X gene mutation
Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Clinical Grant
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis MD, PhD - $30,286
RUSH University Medical Center, Chicago
Pilot Study of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Fragile X Premutation Carriers With and Without FXTAS
Research Summary: National Fragile X Foundation Clinical Grant
Cary Kogan, PhD - $35,000
University of Ottawa
Novel non-verbal learning tasks for the assessment of cognitive change in FXS
RESULTS: A comparative study of the performance of individuals
with fragile X syndrome and Fmr1 knockout mice on Hebb-Williams
mazes. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19796132
Summer Student Fellowships
Awards
from the National Fragile X Foundation do not just go to established
researchers and institutions, they are also made to promising
students who have demonstrated an interest in Fragile X. The
$2500 "Rosen Summer Student
Fellowship" awardees in 2006 were:
- Charlotte D'Hulst, University of Antwerp - (William and
Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Investigating GABA synthesis in the
FXS
- Christopher Raske,
Cal State Sacramento/UC Davis School of Medicine - (William and Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Transcriptional Dysregulation of the
FMR1 Gene
- Jessica Ezzell Hunter, Emory University - (William and Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Investigation of the effect of FMR1
premutation alleles on memory function
- Julie Anne Hammer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (William and Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Attention and Behavioral Inhibition in
Young Males with FXS
- Kim S. Daniel, McGill University - (William and Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Learning to count and sequential responding
in boys with FXS
- Stacy J. Chung, Kennedy Krieger Institute - (William and Enid Rosen Research Fund)
Trajectory of Executive Dysfunction in
Girls with Fragile X
- Kyle McAuley, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry - (Northern California Fragile X Association)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Study Of The Mirror Neuron System In Adolescents With FXS
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