The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research

2009 Pilot Project Awardees

The following indiviudals were awarded $50,000 to carry out their proposed research projects from November 2009 - October 2010. Click on each recipient's name to read their winning abstracts

Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD Modeling congenital bone marrow failure syndromes using pluripotent stem cells
Joanne Chan, PhD Vascular dissection of TSC/LAM progression in a zebrafish model
Mark D. Fleming, PhD, DPhil Molecular Genetics of Congenital Siberoblastic Anemia
Jordan Kreidberg, MD, PhD WTI gene target discovery in FSGS
John Mably, PhD Genetic pathways involved in the pathogenesis of cerebral cavernous malformations
Amy Roberts, MD Identification and characterization of novel genes in left sided congentical heart disease