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Human Genetics & Genomics Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – Speaker: Mohammad Ali Faghihi, M.D., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Miller School Study Identifies Master Regulator for Schizophrenia
February 7, 2012 – A team of researchers led by Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D., the Miller School’s associate dean for therapeutic innovation, has pinpointed a “master” regulatory molecule in the brain that is altered in people with schizophrenia. The finding could facilitate the development of better drugs for the debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects an estimated one percent of the world’s population.
UM researchers have identified a genetic variant linked to a rare form of paraplegia
January 13, 2012 – UM researchers have identified a genetic variant linked to a rare form of paraplegia in a paper titled, “Mutations in the ER-shaping protein reticulon 2 cause the axon-degenerative disorder hereditary spastic paraplegia type 2” published online January 10, 2012 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Alzheimer’s Experts Present Latest in Prevention and Research
January 17, 2012 – Two of the nation’s leading Alzheimer’s disease experts shared the latest in research and prevention strategies to delay onset of this disease at an event hosted by the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics. Gary Small, M.D., author of “The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program,” joined Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., director of the Hussman Institute, in a lecture and book signing held at UM’s Lois Pope LIFE Center on January 10.