Gary Bassell, PhD, has enjoyed participation at NFXF conferences since 2002 and has been a Scientific and Clinical Advisory Committee member since 2009. Dr. Bassell’s laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1998. With this support, the Bassell lab has published 138 impactful and highly cited manuscripts on various topics related to neuronal mRNA biology in health and neurogenetic diseases, including 50 on FMRP and Fragile X syndrome.

Dr. Bassell’s research has been supported for many years by NIH Fragile X Centers. Dr. Bassell has trained and mentored many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, whose research has been published in excellent journals, and they have progressed in their independent careers. His former predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees are now independent investigators working on FXS and related diseases in their own laboratories.

Dr. Bassell holds a doctorate in cell biology from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Neurological Diseases of Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School.