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Congratulations are in order to Dr. Colin Franz for receiving 1st place Jr. Physician & Jr. scientist Sarah Baskin Award, and to Dr. Audrey Leung for receiving 3rd place Sarah Baskin Award amongst the Shirley Ryan 嫩B研究院 residents on June 6th, 2019!
Dr Leung presented research conducted during her rotation with Dr Franz. The project investigated the link between head injury and ALS using an in vitro neurotrauma model. By putting human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons carrying the familial ALS-associated gene SOD1 under stress using a specially-designed stretch-trauma machine, they were able to reproduce particular pathological protein misfolding seen in ALS patients.