Dr. med. Anne Weißbach from the Institute of Neurogenetics at the University of Lübeck was awarded the David Marsden Award 2019 for her research. The Dystonia Europe Prize, which has been awarded every two years since 2003, is named after David Marsden (1938-1998), one of the leading European neurologists of his time. The Marsden Award […]
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Members of the Institute of Neurogenetics in collaboration with other members of the “ProtectMove” Consortium (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG FOR2488) have recently identified a novel modifier of disease severity and cognitive dysfunction in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism. This study was published in Annals of Neurology, one of the five leading “Clinical Neurology” journals in
Members of the Institute of Neurogenetics take part of a multimodal field study in the Philippines. The aim is to investigate affected and unaffected carriers of the X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) mutation to study penetrance and expressivity of XDP as part of a CCXDP Project and DFG FOR2488. Team members of the cross-institutional field study: Cid
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Sokhna Haissatou Diaw from the University of Trieste (Italy) has joined the Institute of Neurogenetics for a seven-month internship, starting from April 2019. She was awarded with the Erasmus fellowship and joined the research team “Genetics of Rare Diseases” (Group leader Prof. Dr. Katja Lohmann).
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