Alec Smith has been awarded a University of Washington RRF grant for $40,000. The funded project is entitled “Using functional readouts from engineered models of innervated skeletal muscle to assess the efficacy of gene therapies targeting neuromuscular diseases”.
Royalty Research Fund Award to Alec Smith Read More »
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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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.
Changho Chun awarded ISCRM Fellows predoctoral trainee position. Read More »
Alec Smith has received a 2 year Early Investigator Pilot award through a Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1), involving investigators at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, funded by the NIGMS.
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Matthew Childers’ application for computing resources in the XSEDE program of the San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded. The award for the project “Molecular Dynamics of Biological Machines” includes computing time and disk storage with a monetary value of $21,980.00. The award will support simulations of structures of normal and disease-associated mutant structures of myosin and glycine aminoacyl tRNA synthetase (GARS).
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Sofia Jepson has been selected as a member of the Husky 100. The Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students who are making the most of their time at the UW.
Sofia Jepson Honored Read More »
Alec Smith has received a Pilot Award from the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research.
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