The McKinney lab is requesting 1 year of funding to (1) finalize their exciting data showing that modulating a downregulated sodium channel subunit could correct Purkinje cell firing and ataxia; and (2) to advance their preliminary data showing a down regulation of mGluR1 and to test if modulating mGluR1 can rescue or slow down the ataxia.
Grant: $99,000
Duration: One year
Dr. Anne McKinney
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
McGill University
Life Sciences Complex, Bellini, Room 167
3649 Prom. Sir-William-Osler
Montreal, Quebec H3G 0B1
Contact: anne.mckinney@mcgill.ca