Completed Projects
Funding Year: 2007
PWS mouse model with deleted snoRNA cluster
Awarded To: Uta Francke, MD , Stanford University
Amount: $50,000
Synaptology in Prader-Willi syndrome
Awarded To: Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD , Yale University
Amount: $50,000
Activation of the maternal allele at the PWS/AS domain as a potential therapeutic approach
Awarded To: Prof Ahron Razin and Ruth Shemer, PhD , Hebrew University Medical School, Israel
Amount: $25,000
The effect of growth hormone replacement therapy on physical and behavioral sexual development in persons with PWS
Awarded To: Susan Myers, MD and Barbara Whitman, PhD , St Louis University
Amount: $50,000
Exploring the potential of using demethylation drugs to treat PWS
Awarded To: Yong-hui Jiang, MD, PhD , Baylor College of Medicine
Amount: $35,000
The role of the midbrain dopaminergic reward circuitry in ghrelin’s effects on food intake and body weight
Awarded To: Jeffrey Zigman, MD, PhD , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $50,000
The autonomic nervous system in necdin-null mice
Awarded To: Rachel Wevrick, PhD , University of Alberta, Canada
Amount: $50,000
Funding Year: 2006
Regulation of expression of Prader-Willi syndrome region genes in the hypothalamus by nutritional and hormonal signals
Awarded To: Stephen O’Rahilly, Ph.D. Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Biochemistry , University of Cambridge
Amount: $40,000
Evaluation of sensory processing in inividuals with PWS
Awarded To: Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR , KID Foundation
Amount: $40,000
The sympathetic and enteric nervous systems in necdin-null mice
Awarded To: Rachel Wevrick, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics , University of Alberta, Canada
Amount: $40,000