Friday, January 11, 2013

NAF Funded Research for FA in 2013

NAF Funded Research for FA in 2013.

Research Grants:

Generation of peripheral sensory neurons from Friedreich’s ataxia human iPS cell lines, Chintawar, Satyan, Ph.D. Université Libre de Bruxelles - Erasme Hospital, Belgium.

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS:

Development of new mouse models of Friedreich’s Ataxia
Baines, Christopher P., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, Kansas, MO





Seminar at SWOSU: “The Role of Frataxin in the Neurodegenerative Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia”

Seminar at SWOSU: “The Role of Frataxin in the Neurodegenerative Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia”.
January 10, 2013, Dr. Laura Busenlehner, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alabama, will give a seminar at Southwestern Oklahoma State University on Thursday, January 17, on the Weatherford campus.

Busenlehner’s seminar is titled “The Role of Frataxin in the Neurodegenerative Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia”. Her seminar will focus on the inorganic chemistry, biochemistry and biophysical characterization of the Frataxin protein.