PND Research

The 2010-2011
Research Grant Program

Awards up to $164,000 to Research On Behalf of Pediatric Neurotransmitter

I. Recipient: K. Michael Gibson Ph.D., FACMG, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI and Phillip L. Pearl, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Department of Neurology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Award up to: $100,000 "Efficancy of Ornithine Alpha Ketoglutarate Intervention in Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase (SSADH) Deficiency”. A grant of $50,000 was approved for the first phase of the project. If the initial phase is successful, $50,000 will be awarded for the second phase.

II. Recipient: Gregg D. Stanwood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development Associate, Director, Vanderbilt Mouse Neurobehavioral Core, Nashville, TN

Award: $25,000 “Dopaminergic Effects on the Formation of Brain Architecture”.

III. Recipient: Keith Hyland Ph.D. ,Director, Department of Neurochemistry, Medical Neurogenetics, LLC, Director, Department of Neurochemistry, Atlanta, GA

Award: $23,900 "To establish keratinocytes and/or melanocytes as a cell source for the enzyme assay of tyrosine hydroxylase".

IV. Recipient: Michael Rotstein, MD Columbia University Medical Center, The Neurological Institute, New York

Award: $15,000 Third Year Fellowship: under the direction of Darryl De Vivo MD.