Huntington’s disease slows the cell’s protein factory, causing production line jams & toxicity. A faulty blueprint & missing ...

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Jackie L. Johnson is an Oncology PhD who worked under Dr. Rene Bernards at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research explored novel synthetic lethal interactions in ...

Dr. Sarah Hernandez is the Director of Research Programs at the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF). She carried out her postdoctoral work with Dr. Leslie Thompson at the University of California, ...

Emma is a PhD student at UCL Institute of Neurology, where she works in Professor Sarah Tabrizi’s team. Her research explores the role of DNA repair in Huntington’s disease, which she hopes will ...

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HDBuzz has ramped up to match the accelerating pace of Huntington’s disease research. April 2025 brought us insight on ...

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Leora Fox trained as a Huntington's Disease scientist, and obtained her PhD in 2016 at Columbia University, where she studied HD mouse models and how brain cells dispose of huntingtin protein. After ...

Peter attended medical school at Queen’s University Belfast. He is now a Specialty Registrar in Neurology in London and an Academic Clinical Fellow attached to the Huntington’s Disease Research Group ...