| | Over 100 Presentation Requests Submitted to the 14th Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Group Meeting Hosted and Supported by Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
April 8, 2010. The International SMA Research Group Meeting is the biggest SMA research conference in the world. Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy organizes the conference, and financially underwrites the meeting by covering all logistical expenses, food, registration fees, travel and lodging for all main research presenters, a $1,000 investment per presenter. The meeting this year is being held in Santa Clara, CA in June. In 2010, FSMA received 107 presentation requests from researchers from around the world for the 14th Annual SMA Research Group Meeting. A 13% increase from 2009. We expect about 250 researchers overall to attend the conference to learn about the latest developments in SMA research. The researchers giving presentations at the conference represent over 50 academic organizations and 8 companies from 13 countries around the world. See below for a full list of presenting researchers The conference, which is the only open venue for annual communication between international SMA researchers, has tangible benefits for the entire SMA community:
-Enables open communication of early unpublished scientific data among researchers - a key component in accelerating the pace of research.
-Creates a vital sense of community among SMA researchers, creating a collaborative spirit that results in many productive research partnerships.
-Allows cross-disciplinary dialog among basic researchers, clinicians, and industry representatives that is vital in creating effective therapies.
-Motivates SMA researchers by allowing for direct interaction with families and patients living with SMA.
-Allows young researchers to interact with leaders in the field, which helps build the future of the SMA research community. Click here to learn more about the family conference which runs alongside the research meeting. Please click here for more details about the 14th SMA Research Group Meeting. 2010 Presenting Researchers:
Stephen Lynn, TREAT-NMD, Newcastle University, UK
Faraz Farooq, University of Ottawa, Canada
Rebecca M. Pruss, Trophos, France
Umrao Monani, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Ilsa Gómez-Curet, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Dr Brigitta von Rekowski, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Dirk Baumer, Oxford Universtiy, UK
Hong Liu, University of Ottaw, Canada
Ravindra Singh, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Wendy M. King, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Anindya Sen, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Justin Boyer ,University of Ottawa, Canada
Yves De Repentigny, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Haluk Topaloglu, Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Turkey
Hayat Erdem Yurter, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Markus Riessland, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Lutz Garbes, University of Cologne, Germany
Mara Almeida, University of Oxford, UK
Shou-Mei Wu, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lucia Tabares, University of Seville, Spain
Chris Lorson, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Monir Shababi, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Erin N Wakeling, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
Jacqueline Glascock, University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri
Monica Hayhurst Bennett, Harvard University, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA
Jonathan Cherry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Ching H. Wang, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Cheng Xu, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Brian McCabe, Columbia University, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease New York, NY
Wendy Imlach, Columbia University, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease New York, NY
Karen K. Y. Ling, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Quijano-Roy, Susana APHP, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, , France
Michela Catteruccia, Ospedale Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Jingbo Xiao, NIH Chemical Genomic Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Heath
Erkan Osman, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Laxman Gangwani, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Melissa Bowerman, University of Ottawa Canada
Kathleen Wilson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Hans S. Keirstead, University of California at Irvine / CA Stem Cell, Inc.
Marta Bosch-Marcé, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Maria Dimitriadi, Brown University, Providence, RI
Raffaella Willmann, University of Basel and Santhera Pharmaceuticals Switzerland
Thomas Wishart, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Chantal Mutsaers, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Eduardo Tizzano, Hospital de Sant Pau and CIBERER, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Claus, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
George Z. Mentis, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University, NY
Rosa Lomastro, Istituto di Genetica Medica ,University Cattolica, Rome (Italy)
F. Danilo Tiziano, Catholic University, Rome, Ital
Douglas M. Sproule, SMA Clinical Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Heidi R Fuller, Wolfson Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular Disease; Oswestry, UK
W. David Arnold, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,
Glenn E Morris, Wolfson Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular Disease; Oswestry, UK
Cyril Peter, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Denise Locatelli, IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute 'C. Besta', Milano, Italy
Ji-Long Liu, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Graham C. Parker, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Melissa A. Harrington, Delaware State University, DE
Sally Dunaway, PT, DPT Columbia University, New York, NY
Rocco G. Gogliotti, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Dr. Barkats, INSERM U, France
Dr. Astord, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israël
Katherine Bricceno, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Megerditch Kiledjian, Rutgers University, NJ
Nikolai Naryshkin, PTC Therapeutics, NJ
Zhaiyi Zhang, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Jayson Caracciolo, MPH, CCRP Children's Hospital, Boston; Boston, MA
Deborah Y. Kwon, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Jacqueline Montes, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Christopher R Heier ,Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Tom Crawford, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dawn S. Chandler, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Claudia Fallini, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Lisa L. Baumbach, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Jonathan D. Marra, Columbia University New York, NY
Dione Kobayashi, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, New York, NY
Megan Montgomery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Tanya Wyatt, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
Tara L Martinez, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Sebastian Lunke, Epigenetics in Human Health and Disease Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia
James Allen, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Sungchan Cho, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Rafael J Yáñez-Muñoz, University of London, UK
Bernard A LaSalle, University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Utah
Christopher E. Henderson, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Mariangels de Planell-Saguer, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Darrick Li, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Zhenxi Zhang, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Jason H. Williams, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa
Louis Viollet, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah
Sarah Tisdale, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Mumtaz Kasim, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Marco Passini, Genzyme Corporation Framingham
Veronica Setola, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kelley J. Murphy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Hao Le, Dept of Neuroscience and Center for Molecular Neurobiology. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.
Aga Julia Lewelt, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UTAH
Rajeev Sivasankaran, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
John Kissel, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
Yimin Hua, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY / Isis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA
Jocelyn Cote, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hector Valderrama-Carvajal, University of Ottawa, Canada
Alexandra Prufer de Q. C. Araujo, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Patrick Gordon, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Kathryn Swoboda, University of Utah, Utah
James Rusche, Repligen Corporation, MA
John Porter, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Grace Furman, Paracelsus, Inc., CA
Elizabeth McNeil, OOPD, FDA
Charlotte Sumner, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
