Six 2011 NFXF Summer Student Fellowship awards of $2,500 each were recently awarded to deserving students.

Since the late 1990’s the NFXF Student Fellowships awards have benefited approximately 75 young scientists to the tune of nearly $200,000.

This year’s recipients are:

• Zaynah Sadiq – Stanford University School of Medicine
  Quality of life as an outcome of developmental trajectories in Fragile X during the transition from adolescence to adulthood
• Michelle Frazer – University of Michigan
  Correction of behavioral phenotypes in FXTAS model mice
• Cynthia Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Structural basis for the recognition of RNA by the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein, FMRP
• Scott Danielson – Emory University School of Medicine
  Targeting excess PI3K signaling to rescue dendritic spine morphology in a FXS mouse model
• Annie Pally – University of Houston
  FMRP regulation of the central mevalonate pathway in a Fragile X mouse model
• Emily Liang – Stanford University
  Evaluating FreeSurfer as an analysis tool for longitudinal structural MRI in young adults with FXS