News From NINCDS
Teacher Investigator, Research Career Development Awards Announced.
—On recommendation of the National Advisory Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Council, which met in January 1985, the NINCDS has made nine new Teacher Investigator Development Awards and nine Research Career Development Awards. Award recipients and their project titles are as follows:Teacher Investigator Development AwardsStephen A. Berman, University of Chicago, "Molecular Biology of Cholinergic Neurons"Brian W. Blakley, University of Minnesota, St Paul, "Otolith-Optokinetic Interactions"Roy K. Davis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, "HPD-Laryngeal Cancer Localization and Treatment"Henry B. Friedman, Duke University, Durham, NC, "Neurobiology and Rational Therapy of Human Medulloblastoma"Robert L. Knobler, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, "Pathogenesis of Demyelination: Viral and Immune Studies"Albee Messing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Neuropathology in Transgenic Bearing SV40 Oncogene"Teepu Siddique, Duke University, Durham, NC, "Recombinant DNA Strategies in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"William R. Turk, University of