Awards & Fellowships

2017

Predoctoral Award:
Shuin Park
“Exclusion of Major Cell Types in the Murine Heart Enriches for Cardiac Pericytes”

Postdoctoral Awards:
Jackie L. McCourt
“Mouse Models of Two Missense Mutations in Actin Binding Domain 1 of Dystrophin Associated with Duchenne or Becker Muscular Dystrophy”

2016

Predoctoral Award:
Brian McMorran
“Disease-Specific Differences in Human Muscle Glycosylation Affect Muscle Function”

Postdoctoral Awards:
Michael Hicks
“ERBB3 and NGFR Mark Distinct Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells in Human Development Enabling hPSC Maturation”

2015

Predoctoral Award:
Courtney S. Young
“Development of a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Editing Platform to Restore the Reading Frame for 60% of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients”

Postdoctoral Awards:
Michelle S. Parvatiyar, Ph.D.
“Sarcospan has a Protective Role During Development of Cardiac Disease”

Kristen Stearns-Reider, Ph.D.
“Effects of Dystrophin Loss on the Biophysical Properties of the Skeletal Muscle Extracellular Matrix”

2014

Predoctoral Award:
Brian J. McMorran
“Unique and Specific Changes in Cell Surface Glycosylation During Myotube Differentiation”

Postdoctoral Awards:
Richard T. Wang, Ph.D.
“Genetic Diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dsytrophy by Clinical Exome, Whole Exome and Transcriptome Sequencing”

Elizabeth M. Gibbs, Ph.D.
“Overexpression of Mouse Sarcospan Reduces Dystrophic Muscle Pathology in the Mdx Mouse Model”

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