Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community.
Leora Fox is a PhD student in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University, working in the laboratory of Dr. Ai Yamamoto. She uses a mouse model of Huntington’s disease to study how brain cells clear away deposits of mutant huntingtin protein. She is a member of Neuwrite, a group of writers and scientists who collaborate to communicate science to the public in novel and accurate ways.