Honors

Advanced degrees awarded to members of the NDRG team

On Monday, August 14, Cecelia Watson successfully defended her Masters dissertation “Investigation of Neuregulin-1 Treatment in 3D engineered skeletal muscle toward Intrafusal Spindle Fiber Generation in vitro”.

On Tuesday, August 15, Saffie Mohran successfully defended his PhD dissertation “The modulation of myofibril function: How small molecules and sarcomeric mutations impact actomyosin interactions”.

Congratulations Cecelia and Saffie!

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ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to Alec Smith

Alec Smith has been awarded an Innovation Pilot Award by ISCRM. This Washington-State-funded one year grant will fund research into the effect of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on muscle spindles, the sensory receptor structures within skeletal muscle that allow us to sense the extent and speed of contraction of our muscles to permit coordinated movement.

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Changho Chun awarded ISCRM Fellows predoctoral trainee position.

Today Changho Chun was informed that he has been awarded a predoctoral trainee position from the ISCRM Fellows program. The traineeship will support his work developing improved methods for producing induced pluripotent stem cell-based in vitro models of human ventral spinal cord, to be used for study of motor neuron diseases.

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