With $306,000 in grants from FRAXA Research Foundation, Dr. Julius Zhu from the University of Virginia examined the effects of several drugs such as Buspar and Abilify which manipulate specific serotonin receptors and the effect that has on synaptic plasticity (LTP and LTD).
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Studies of glutamate receptor trafficking
FRAXA awarded $35,000 in 2001 to Robert Malinow, PhD, Principal Investigator and Julius Zhu, PhD, FRAXA Postdoctoral Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. While he was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Malinow’s lab, Dr. Julius Zhu carried out experiments designed to define the set of proteins which are affected in Fragile X syndrome and understand how they function together. In 2002, Dr. Zhu started his own lab at the University of Virginia where he is continuing his Fragile X work with new funding from FRAXA.
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