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The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) recently awarded funding for 23 promising ataxia research projects. One of the projects is led by Dr. Ismael Al-Ramahi from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and has received a “Pioneer SCA Translational Grant Award.”…

A post-doctoral fellowship award has been given to Carlos Roberto Hernandez-Castillo, Ph.D. of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexica, Coyoacan, Mexico to study the neuropathology of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an extremely rare genetic disorder that affects a brain area known as the cerebellum, which controls coordination.

The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF), an organization dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by ataxia through support, education, and research, recently released a list of study proposals awarded funding for 2015. One of the awarded proposals, written by a post-doctoral candidate, Dr. Yu Miyazaki, M.D., Ph.D.

The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) announced in December 2014 the funding of 23 important ataxia research projects in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, Portugal, United Kingdom and Germany. One of the projects awarded within the United States is led by Dr. Jeremy D. Schmahmann from …

At Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, researchers are developing a genetic toolkit to help study ataxia. Marife Arancillo, PhD, was awarded a Post-Doc Fellowship Award for her work in “Neural Mechanisms of Cerebellar Function in Ataxia.” As part of this…

As the most prevalent form of ataxia, Friedreich’s ataxia represents a major focus for research in the field of understanding disease mechanisms. Rising to the demand is researcher Simona Donatello, PhD at Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Begium. Dr. Donatello was recognized by the National Ataxia Foundation…

Joining Friedreich’s Ataxia in the list of ataxias is spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), also known as Machado-Joseph disease. This disease is caused by mutations in the gene encoding protein ataxin-3 (ATXN3), unlike Friedreich’s ataxia, which is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding frataxin protein (FXN). Similar…

The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) recently announced that 23 promising studies focusing on ataxia were awarded funding. These awards are crucial to supporting research projects that sustain cutting-edge ataxia research. One of the projects granted a “Seed…

The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) has announced that Dr. Susan Perlman was recently awarded a Research Grant to build a web-based National Ataxia Database (NAD). Susan Perlman is a professor in the Department of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA…

A study led Dr. Meritxell Teixidó and Prof. Ernest Giralt from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, entitled “Applying the Retro-Enantio Approach to Obtain a Peptide Capable of Overcoming the Blood–Brain Barrier” was published in the Angewandte Chemie.  The study highlighted the…