Summer Banbury Grant Awards
Thanks to generous donations from our members, KDA recently awarded $100,000 grants to two teams of researchers who participated in the 2023 SBMA Research Workshop held at the Banbury Center in New York. The workshop, funded by donations to the 2023 KD Golf Scramble in Magnolia, Texas, brought together participants from 15 labs in the U.S. and three other countries to discuss collaborative approaches between SBMA researchers and experts in other diseases.
The team of Dr. Al La Spada and Mina Gouti, PhD, will study the question of “How does skeletal muscle expression of mutant AR result in motor neuron degeneration in SBMA?” The team of Helen Miranda, PhD, and Ashleigh Schaffer, PhD will investigate “Gene expression, regulation by AR with different CAG repeat sizes in hiPSC-derived neuromuscular junctions." Both projects will use leading-edge research techniques.
KDA congratulates these scientists for their collaborative efforts, and we look forward to the results of their research. We also look forward to this year's Banbury SBMA workshop, again funded by the KD Golf Scramble. Twenty-two participants from six countries will meet to discuss the role of the cellular protein quality control system in SBMA (Kennedy's disease).
