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Year		Degree		Institution
1999		Postdoc		Ottawa Health Reserch Instiitute, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
1995		Ph.D.		Ohio State University
1995		Postdoc		Hospital Ste. justine, Montreal, Quebec Canada
1988		B.S.		Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN

Period		Description		Organization
2003 - Present		Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics		Children's Memorial Research Center, Northwestern University

DiDonato, C.J., Parks, R.J and Kothary, R. (2003). Development of a gene therapy strategy for the restoration of survival motor neuron (SMN) expression: implications for SMA therapy. . Human Gene Therapy: 14 (2) 179-188.

Young, P.J., DiDonato, C.J., Hu, D., Kothary, R., Androphy, E.J., Lorson, C.L. (2002). SRp30c-dependent stimulation of survival neuron exon 7 inclusion is facilitated by a direct interaction with hTra2β1. Hum. Mol. Genet.: 11(5) 577-87.

DiDonato, C.J., Lorson, C.L., De Repentigny, Y., Simard L., Chartrand, C., Androphy, E.J., Kothary, R. (2001). Regulation of murine survival motor neuron (Smn) protein levels by modifying Smn exon 7 splicing. Hum. Mol. Genet: 10(23) 2727-2736..

DiDonato, C.J., Brun, T., Simard, L.R. (1999). Genomic organization and complete nucleotide sequence of the murine surivival motor neuron gene (Smn). Mammalian Genome : 10(6) 638-41.

DiDonato, C.J., Chen, X-N., Noya, D., Korenberg, J.R., Nadeau, J.H. Simard, L.R (1997). Cloning, characterization and copy number of the murine survival motor neuron gene: Homolog of the spinal muscular atrophy-determining gene. . Genome Research : 7(4): 339-352.

2004- present - American Academy of Neurology/Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation SMA Young Investigator Award

1999-2001 - Muscular Dystrphy Assocation Career Development Award

1999-2001 - Families of SMA post-doctoral fellowship

1997-1999 - Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) post-doctoral fellowship

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