$110,000 The ASF Joseph Wagstaff Postdoctoral Research Fellowship was granted to its first recipient. Dr. King will do his postdoctoral research on a new drug UNCilencer1, which turns on the silenced paternal UBE3A gene in mouse neurons. UNCilencer1 is a […]
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$199,972 (2-year award) Funding for this grant is an attempt to promote research targeted to identifying agents or druggable compounds that may increase expression of UBE3A in brain neurons. Using multidisciplinary facilities, advanced genetic engineering and robotic drug analysis, this grant […]
Read more$25,000 – RDCRN Training Grant This proposal seeks to compare the yield of routine EEGs obtained as a standard in the Angelman Natural History protocol with two other types of EEG recordings to identify common EEG patterns. These patterns include […]
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$200,000 – 2-years Dr. Zylka’s lab will expand on the work previously funded by ASF that led to the identification of a family of topoisomerase inhibitors that can unsilence the paternal UBE3A gene. In order to learn more about this […]
Read more $200,000 – 2-years This grant represents a continuation of funding for this investigator’s laboratory which was instrumental in identifying that a class of topoisomerase inhibitors can unsilence the paternal UBE3A gene. The investigator now plans to extend this work by […]
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