Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants
2013 Awardees

Virally-mediated RNAi of α-synuclein in Parkinson's Disease
Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Creation and Validation of Two Critical Animal Models for Understanding the role of CHOP in Liver Cancer
Thomas Rutkowski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Targeting FGF21 Production as a Therapeutic for Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
Matthew Potthoff, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Novel Roles for Lipid Signaling in the Homeostatic Control of Synapse Function
C. Andrew Frank, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

MG53 as a Novel Mediator of Cardiac T-tubule Remodeling and Repair
Long-Sheng Song, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine