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April 20, 2004
JUST ANNOUNCED
Packard Center scientist Richard
Huganir has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Packard Center scientist Richard
Huganir has just received one of the most coveted honors a researcher
in this country can have, a mark of esteem given by others in the business.
He's been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Huganir is a professor of neuroscience and of biological chemistry with
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Most of his work deals with the
way molecular signals made and received by nerves in the brain translate
into learning and memory.
But Huganir has also contributed significantly to The Packard Center's
work. He's helping understand the process called excitotoxity which contributes
to motor neuron damage in ALS.
Specifically, Huganir's helping explain how cell "machinery"
involved in learning and memory may become distorted and involved in the
way a flood of the natural nerve transmitter glutamate can over-excite
motor neurons. His work could help pinpoint the finest, most specific
targets in motor neurons for protective drugs.
As Edward Miller, M.D., Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
remarks, "This newest honor is a tribute to the high caliber and
importance of Dr. Huganir's work and of the esteem for him in the scientific
world."
We at The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins offer
our congratulations too.
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