Grants at a glance - Spring 2014

Catarina Quinzii, an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, has been awarded an MDA research grant totaling $253,800 over three years to investigate how flaws in the gene for a protein called RMND1 lead to abnormalities in mitochondria, the energy-producing parts of cells. Quinzii will conduct experiments in human cells, mouse cells and mice with abnormal or deficient RMND1 protein, with an eye to developing a treatment for a human mitochondrial myopathy that results from an RMND1 gene mutation.