FPWR Funded Projects

Funding Year: 2011

• Role of SNORD116/HBII-85 snoRNAs in Prader-Willi syndrome
  Awarded To: Giles Yeo, PhD , University of Cambridge
  Amount Funded: $49,683
• Environmental, physiological and neural bases of skin picking in Prader-Willi syndrome
  Awarded To: Scott Hall, PhD , Stanford University
  Amount Funded: $30,000
• Generating a novel model of ghrelin-null Prader-Willi syndrome
  Awarded To: Timothy Wells, PhD , Cardiff University
  Amount Funded: $50,000
• A Prader-Willi syndrome mouse model with brain specific ablation of snoRNA clusters from the Snrpn to Ube3a region
  Awarded To: Yong-Hui Jiang, PhD , Duke University
  Amount Funded: $50,000
• A pig model of PWS: a breakthrough for obesity, clinical and therapeutic studies
  Awarded To: Robert Nicholls, PhD , Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC
  Amount Funded: $50,000
• Longitudinal investigation of pubertal development and reproductive hormones in Prader-Willi syndrome from infancy through adulthood (year 2)
  Awarded To: Varda Gross-Tsur, MD , Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel
  Amount Funded: $42,800
• Role of Kiss1 neurons in mediating grhrelin’s effect on effect on reproduction and metabolism (year 2)
  Awarded To: Carol Elias, PhD , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Amount Funded: $30,000
• Mechanism of hyperphagia and therapeutic interventions in mouse models for Prader-Willi syndrome
  Awarded To: Feng Ding, PhD , Xiamen University
  Amount Funded: $25,000
• Characterization of skeletal muscle abnormalities in mouse models of Prader-Willi syndrome: Functional role of Necdin?
  Awarded To: Ronald Cohn, MD , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Amount Funded: $49,905
• R-loop formation and chromatin decondensation at the PWS critical locus
  Awarded To: Janine LaSalle, PhD , University of California, Davis
  Amount Funded: $30,000