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In this Expert's ... In this Expert's Corner video, UMass Medical School researcher Neil Aronin talks about exploring a promising new therapeutic approach to Huntington's disease based on RNA interference.
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In this Expert's ... In this Expert's Corner video, UMass Medical School researcher Neil Aronin talks about exploring a promising new therapeutic approach to Huntington's disease based on RNA interference.
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Neil Aronin, MD, has been honored by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America for his contributions to understanding the disease.
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UMass Chan researchers Neil Aronin, MD, and Jane Freedman, MD, are among a select group of researchers to receive NIH grants to explore a recently discovered novel way that cells communicate.
Last modified: Dec 18, 2013
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High school senior Neil Kale wins 15th annual Central Massachusetts Brain Bee
High school senior Neil Kale wins 15th annual Central Massachusetts Brain Bee
Competition, hosted by UMass Medical School, aims to stimulate teens’ interest in neuroscience
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The annual event, designed to stimulate high school students’ interest in neuroscience, was hosted by the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and the NeuroNexus Institute at UMass Medical School via
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Two UMass Medical School researchers report on promising new developments in the quest for a treatment for Huntington’s disease in the Thursday, Nov. 1, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Neil Aronin, MD, and Melissa J. Moore, PhD, co-authored an editorial on the latest research into Huntington’s disease, an inherited neurological disorder caused by a mutation on a single chromosome.
Last modified: Dec 19, 2013
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Neil Aronin, MD, led an afternoon of presentations detailing advances made by scientists at UMass Medical School in the quest to find a treatment for Huntington’s disease. CHDI Foundation President Robi Blumenstein accepted a plaque in recognition of the foundation’s $13 million in support of Huntington’s research at the medical school.
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Huntington’s Disease
Collaboration to advance therapy for Huntington’s Disease
Alison Duffy
UMass Medical School Communications
Neil Aronin UMass Medical School has entered into a research collaboration with pharmaceutical company Lundbeck Inc. aimed at further development of a targeted therapy to slow or halt the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD). Led by Neil Aronin, MD, professor of medicine, cell biology and physiology, the collaboration will further the study of RNAi-based therapies as
Last modified: Dec 17, 2013
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cures for neurodegenerative diseases.
The 32nd annual meeting of the Hudson Hoagland Society featured a panel discussion on cures for neurodegenerative diseases. Recipients of the 2017 Worcester Foundation Research Grants were also announced.
Neil Aronin, MD; Miguel Sena-Esteves, PhD; and Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, during the panel discussion “Neurodegenerative Diseases: Crossing the Barrier to Cures.” Jack and Susan Bassick with Jie Song, PhD, the recipient of the 2017 Bassick Family Foundation
Last modified: Jun 07, 2017
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investing in new gene therapy treatments, he said. “I’ve been doing this for many years starting in the early 1980s, and we’re now at a point where we’re talking about when we would treat the patient,” Neil Aronin, MD, professor of medicine, cell biology and physiology, told the Globe. Dr. Aronin is investigating Huntington’s disease. “We didn’t even have that discussion before.” Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, the Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research and chair and professor of
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