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Alec Smith awarded NIH R03 grant

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Alec Smith has been awarded a two-year R03 grant from NIH entitled Using functional readouts from engineering models of innervated skeletal muscle to assess the efficacy of CRISPR-based c9orf72 ALS gene therapies.

This project is part of a larger effort to employ human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motor neurons and skeletal muscle to produce in vitro models of the neuromuscular junction to model motor neuron diseases in order to study disease mechanisms and for drug screens.

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XSEDE award to Matthew Childers

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Matthew Childers’ application for computing resources  in the XSEDE program of the San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded.  The award for the project “Molecular Dynamics of Biological Machines” includes computing time and disk storage with a monetary value of $21,980.00.  The award will support simulations of structures of normal and disease-associated mutant structures of myosin and glycine aminoacyl tRNA synthetase (GARS).

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