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| Christine J." DiDonato |
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2300 Children's Plaza, Box 211
Room C.321F
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 755-6352
Fax: (773) 755-6345 |
| Education |
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Year |
Degree |
Institution |
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1999 |
Postdoc |
Ottawa Health Reserch Instiitute, Ottawa, Ontario Canada |
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1995 |
Ph.D. |
Ohio State University |
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1995 |
Postdoc |
Hospital Ste. justine, Montreal, Quebec Canada |
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1988 |
B.S. |
Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN |
| Work Experience |
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Period
2003 - Present |
Description
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics |
Organization
Children's Memorial Research Center, Northwestern University |
| Recent Publications |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Awards/Honors |
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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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