Ataxin-2 expands insight into the ALS clinical spectrum
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- First Published December 19, 2014.
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Author Disclosures
- Nancy M. Bonini, PhD and
- Orla Hardiman, MD
- Nancy M. Bonini, PhD and
(1) Telethon, Scientific Review Board, 2012- (2) Project ALS, Scientific Review Board, 2012-
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Annual Reviews of Genetics, Associate Editor, 2005-
(1) US patent Application No 12/965,618, July 2011, UPenn Docket No W5390US, Compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (2) US patent Application/not being pursued NO. 61/547,594, Oct 2012, UPenn Y6028. Trimmer-mediated microRNA processing (3) Disclosure Reference Y6128, Dec 2011 Novel fly wing model for acute neural injury. (4) Disclosure Reference X5985, June 2011, miR-34 modulation with anti-aging and anti-neurodegenerative therapeutic applications
(1) Henry Stewart Talk, Royalty, 2008 “Human neurodegenerative disease: insights from Drosophila”
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(1) NIH, R01-NS066312, Principle Investigator, 2009-2014 (2) NIH, R01-NS073660, Principle Investigator, 2011-2016 (3) NIH, R01-NS078283, Principle Investigator, 2012-2017 (4) NIH, R21-NS088370, Principle Investigator, 2014-2016
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(1) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2000-2013 (2) Ellison Medical Foundation, 2010-2014 (3) Muscular Dystrophy Society, 2009-2012
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(1) Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide, patent through Rockefeller University, original application 1985, this application filed 1995 (to my husband, Anthony R. Cashmore).
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- Orla Hardiman, MD
Served on ad hoc advisory boards for Novartis (2010) and Biogen Idec (2010,2012)Allergan (2010), Cytokinetics (2012) Serve on NINDS CDE Team for ALS/MND
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Travel grants provided by Novartis, Biogen Idec and Merck Serono to attend international neurology meetings.
Editor in Chief Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Editorial Board Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Patents Patent Title: Treatment of Central Nervous System Injury Inventors (RCSI): Orla Hardiman Jochen Prehn ; Matt Greenway Dairin Kieran Application No.: PCT/IE2006/000091 Country: International Status: Pending Patent Title: Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disease Inventors (RCSI): Orla Hardiman ;Matt Greenway Application No.: WO2005IE00131 Country: International Status: Pending Publication No: WO2006054277
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the EuropeanCommunity's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n? [259867]. Health Research Board CSA2007/03 Research Motor Neuron ALSA
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- From the Department of Biology (N.M.B.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and the Academic Unit of Neurology (O.H.), Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Correspondence to Dr. Bonini: nbonini{at}sas.upenn.edu or Dr. Hardiman: oral{at}hardiman.net
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