Horae GTC Affiliated Faculty
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Neil Aronin, MD
Academic Role: Professor, Department of Medicine
Focus: Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.
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Hector Benatti, PhD
Academic Role: Instructor
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Robert Brown, MD
Academic Role: Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology
Focus: Neuromuscular diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), muscular dystrophy, adrenoleukodystrophy, hereditary neuropathy and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
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Kevin Donahue, MD
Academic Role: Professor, Department of Medicine
Focus: Elucidation of mechanisms, and from that, the development of therapies for cardiac arrhythmias.
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Hemant Khanna, PhD
Academic Role: Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Focus: Molecular mechanisms and treatment strategies for inherited retinal and macular degenerative diseases.
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Yukiko Maeda, PhD
Academic Role: Instructor, Department of Medicine
Focus: Adeno associated virus mediated gene therapy for skeletal disease, arthritis and rare disease.
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Thoru Pederson, PhD
Academic Role: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Focus: RNA traffic in eukaryotic cells, RNA processing, RNA-protein interactions and microRNA
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Claudio Punzo, PhD
Academic Role: Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Focus: Retinal degenerative diseases that affect photoreceptors such as Retinitis Pigmentosa and Age-Related Macular degeneration.
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Jillian Richmond, PhD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Neurology
Focus: Examining Lymphocytes as Both Tumors and Immunotherapies
