BDSRA awarded research grants and renewed the First BDSRA Post Doctoral Fellowship and Studentship on Aug 3, 2002.

Philip Dawson, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA.
Studentship - Christopher Nairdre "Project to Examine thiol Compounds in Culture for the Treatment of Infantile NCL." - $21,896

Adam Golabek, Ph.D., NYS Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island, NY
"Towards a Therapy for CLN2" (Late Infantile Batten Disease) - $35,000

Elizabeth Kriscenski-Perry, Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY - "seizure Susceptibility, Phenotype and Subsequent Growth Delay in Three Mouse Models of the Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis". - $24,997

Leena Peltonen, Ph.D., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - "Neuronal Localization and in vivo Pathogenesis of Variant Late Infantile NCL,CLN5" - $30,000

Katherine B. Sims, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
"Mutational Analysis in the NCL Disorders: Molecular Genotype and Clinical-Pathologic Correlations." - $35,000

Peter Taschner, Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands - "The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism for NLC." - $19, 300

Immke Tammen, Ph.D., University of Sydney (Australia) and David Palmer, Ph.D., Lincoln Universtiy, Canterbury, New Zealand - collaborative study
"Molecular Characterization of different forms of NCL in Sheep and Cattle."
$30,000

Christopher Guerin, Ph.D., University of Leichester, UK - "Defining Compromised Blood Barrier Integrity in the NCLs." - $17,000

Peter N. Ray, Ph.D., The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
"Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays for Mutations Causing NCL."
$35,088 - Note: This grant is funded totally by the Canadian Chapter - BDSRA.

Ines Noher de Halac, Ph.D., M.D., Children's Hospital of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina "Clinical, Morphological, Biochemical, and Molecular Criteria of NCL in Children of Cordoba, Argentina (part 2)." - $20,000

In addition to the funding of these new projects, BDSRA is renewing the Post Doctoral Fellowship and Studentship awarded last year.

Post Doctoral Fellowship - Susan Cottman, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA. - "Genotype-Phenotype Studies in a Major Mutation JNCL mouse model." - $39, 401

Studentship - Ellen Bible, working under the direction of Jonathon Cooper, Ph.D., King's College, London, UK - "Characterization of a mouse model of infantile NCL (INCL) and subsequent assessment of therapeutic efficacy." - $21,000

Total amount awarded - $ 363,682.00

This amount added to awards made in February 2002 bring the total amount of research funding for 2002 to $ 418,682.00

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