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Huganier, Richard

Richard Huganir, PhD, Professor and Director of the Department of Neuroscience at John Hopkin’s University, researches molecular mechanisms that facilitate communications between neurons in the brain.

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Function in Fragile X Knockout Mice

FRAXA Research Foundation February 13, 2006April 30, 2018
Walter Kaufman, MD, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University, FRAXA research grant

With $143,000 in grants from FRAXA Research Foundation from 2004-2006, Drs. Walter Kaufmann, Richard Huganier, Paul Worley, and David Lieberman at Johns Hopkins University studied the molecular dynamics of mGluRs in areas involved in cognition in the Fragile X knockout mouse.

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