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Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD, professor of Neuroscience, and Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD, professor of Neurology, both of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
have been awarded the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award
for 2010. Balice-Gordon and Dalmau discovered that some diseases, which
patients have been told have no cure, can be attributed to disorders of
the immune system. They were recognized for their research project, Cellular, Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms of Autoimmune anti-Glutamate Receptor Disorders of Memory and Cognition.
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience provides grants to
projects exploring the biology of neurological and psychiatric diseases... Read More
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