Two $1000 Excellence in Research Awards Given at IDMC-7
On the last day of the International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium (IDMC-7) conference, the MDF awarded its “Excellence in Research” awards. These bi-annual $1,000 awards were established in 2007 to encourage scientists and researchers presenting abstracts for the first time at this conference. The recipients are selected by a panel of International peer reviewers for their work in advancing the science of myotonic dystrophy. The MDF’s Managing Director, Lisa Vittek, presented awards to Amanda Ward from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, for her work “Testing the role of CUGBP1 in skeletal muscle wasting in DM1” and Dr. Riccardo Perbellini, from Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan for his work, “Aberrant expression of microRNA’s in myotonic dystrophy.”
