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Albeck, David

David Albeck, PhD, Associate Professor of Behavioral/Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, received a FRAXA Research Foundation award in 2006 to study the relationship between Fragile X syndrome and anxiety in Fragile X mice.

Therapeutic Interventions in FMR1 Knockout and Transgenic Mice: Role of the FMR1 Gene

FRAXA Research Foundation February 13, 2006April 25, 2018
Richard Paylor, PhD, at Baylor College of Medicine, FRAXA Research grant

With a $229,000 grant from FRAXA Research Foundation in 2006, Drs. Richard Paylor, David Albeck, and Francis Brennan at the Baylor College of Medicine found that, in mice as in humans, the level of Fragile X protein in brain cells plays a prominent role in determining levels of activity and anxiety.

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