With $384,300 in grants from FRAXA Research Foundation from 2000-2010, Dr. Kimberly Huber and her team at the University of Texas conducted several studies on the relationship between mGluR5 and Fragile X syndrome. Dr. Huber made the original discovery of the mGluR Theory of Fragile X when she was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Mark Bear, with her first FRAXA grant in 2000.
Kimberly Huber, PhD
Principal Investigator
University of Texas at Southwestern
Previous Grants
$200,000 over 2005-2008)
$63,300 (2002)
$31,300 (2000)
Jennifer Ronesi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2007)
Elena Nosyreva, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2006)