Nigel G Laing, NH&MRC Principal Research Fellowship: neurogenetics – gene discovery, pathobiology, novel therapeutics, novel diagnostics and translation.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1002147

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

My Fellowship will expand my work identifying diseases genes for genetic muscle and nerve diseases by using new technologies that allow discovery of human disease genes which could not be found before. In addition, since we now have proof from mouse studies that heart actin is a target for therapy for the group of diseases that we discovered caused by mutations in the muscle actin protein, we shall take further steps towards making this therapy a reality for patients.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Research Fellowships

Funding Amount: $880,454.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurogenetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

gene discovery | molecular diagnosis | muscle disease | myopathy | neurological disorders | newborn screening | pathophysiology | prenatal diagnosis | therapy

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