Grant Recipients for Research in Myotonic Dystrophy
MDF Research Grant Recipients
Fund-A-Fellow Grant Recipients
2009
Dr, Cameron Hilton
2008
Dr. Auinash Kalsotra
Dr. John Lueck
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Richard Moxley III, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, and the Director of the Neuromuscular Disease Center at the University of Rochester, received a Lifetime Achievement award for $5,000 at the IDMC-6 conference in Milan, Italy on September 12-15, 2007. This award was given to the investigator who has made the greatest contribution to the field of myotonic dystrophy research, as deemed by the MDF Board of Directors. The award is meant to provide incentive to the investigator to continue their research and sustained commitment to the field. The award was also given to Dr. Moxley in thanks for his contribution to the development of the MDF organization.
Excellence in Research Award
Dr. Michael Bryan Warf, a PhD student at the University of Oregon, Department of Chemistry, United States, received an Excellence in Research award in the amount of $1,000 at IDMC-6 conference in Milan, Italy on September 12-15, 2007 for his paper titled: "MBNL binds similar RNA structures in the CUG repeats of myotonic dystrophy and its pre-mRNA substrate cardiac troponin T".
Dr. Susan Mulders, a PhD student at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands, received an Excellence in Research award in the amount of $1,000 at IDMC-6 conference in Milan, Italy on September 12-15, 2007 for her paper titled: "Oligonucleotide-mediated silencing of expanded DMPK transcripts in a DM1 myoblast-myotube cell model".
