The BDSRA awards research grants at 2003 conference

Susan Cotman, Ph.D. - Mass. General Hospital - Postdoctoral Fellowship - $40,000
Final year of three years
"Genotype-Phenotype Studies in a Major-Mutation JNCL Mouse Model"

Ellen Bible/John Cooper, Ph.D. - Kings College London - studentship - $22,000
Final year of three years
"Characterization of a mouse model of infantile NCL (INCL) and subsequent assessment of therapeutic efficacy"

Christopher Neidre/Philip Dawson, Ph.D. - studentship - $21,896
Final year of two years.
"Project to Examine thiol Compounds for the Treatment of Infantile NCL"

Yu Tian (Peter Lobel, Ph.D. - MACB/Rutgers Univ.) - "Substrate specificity of tripeptidyl peptidase I, the enzyme deficient in late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis". Postdoctoral Fellowship - $40,000

Sara Mole, Ph.D., University College London -
$31,392 per year for three years - studentship
"Towards the molecular basis of variant late infantile NCL."

Christopher A. Korey, Ph.D., College of Charleston (SC) - $14,271
"Towards a Drosophila Model of JNCL."

Elizabeth Kriscenski-Perry, Ph.D., Univ of Rochester - $33,875
"Mechanisms of Aberrant Seizure Phenotype in NCL Mouse Models."

David Palmer, Ph.D., Lincoln Univ., NZ & Imke Tammen, Ph.D., Univ. of Sydney, Australia - $44,000 "Molecular genetics of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses in ruminants."
Funded in part by Australia Chapter

Prof. Dr. Ines Noher de Halac, National University & Children's Hospital, Argentina
$32,939 - "Identification and Chracterization of families affected by Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses in Argentina. Development of The Molecular Diagnosis."

Scott Melville, B.Sc.( Ph.D. candidate), Univ. of New South Wales, Australia - $5000
"The Identification Of The NCL Gene In Border Collies."

Anne Messer, Ph.D., Wadsworth Center, N Y State Department of Health - $35,000 "Identification ofr modifier genes that can delay the onset and timecourse of disease in an NCL model - novel therapeutic approaches."

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