Duncan Morhardt, M.D., Ph.D. – 2024
Duncan Morhardt, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Linkedin Globe Twitter Evaluating mechanisms of environmental chemical exposure with developing zebrafish urinary system Many children with improper organ growth before birth have disfigured pelvic organs. In many cases these disfigured organs affect the urinary system: they urinate from more than one hole, […]
Shiaulou Yuan, Ph.D. – 2021
Shiaulou Yuan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Globe Envelope Illuminating the function of polycystins as ciliary mechanotransducers in cardiac development My project seeks to understand and cure congenital heart disease, a birth defect which affects the heart. Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affects about 1% of all live […]
Annapurna Poduri, M.D. – 2016
Annapurna Poduri, M.D. Assistant Professor in Neurology Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Zebrafish Models of PCDH19-related Pediatric Epilepsy Epilepsy affects one in 200 children, many with a genetic etiology. Inherited and de novo heterozygous mutations in the X-linked PCDH19 gene are associated with “female-limited epilepsy,” characterized by refractory early onset seizures, intellectual disability, autism, […]