Erinc Hallacli becomes Vik's first trainee to be appointed Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.…
BWH Movement Division Awards (Sudarsky, Silva and PD Innovation) announced!
BWH Movement Division Awards announced! This year the BWH Movement Division raised enough funds to support 6 projects! The PD Innovation Award (a total of $100K) was split between
- Dr Rich Krolewski (BWH)/ Dr Todd Golub (Broad Inst) for their work on copper as a potential toxicant in Parkinson’s diseases and
- Dr Erinc Hallacli (BWH) / Dr Mo Khalil (BU) for their work to develop a novel proteome-scale perturbation assay for Parkinson’s diseas
The inaugural Silva Ataxia Foundation fellowship went to Dr Joanna (Asia) Korecka in the Division for her work to develop a gene therapy for a childhood ataxia dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA).
The BWH Movement Division Sudarsky Scholars for 2022-2023 include Dr Andreas Horn for developing a comprehensive DBS database at BWH, Dr Sumaiya Nazeen for building a new statistical genetics toolbox for analyzing rare variants in Neurodegeneration and and Dr Barbara (Kelly) Changizi for establishing a video library within the Division.