Melissa Christianson, PhD
Staff Writer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
After earning her undergraduate degree from Yale University, Melissa pursued her PhD in neurobiology at Duke University with Don Lo. She continued to broaden her knowledge about the neuroscience of disease as a postdoc at Duke, where she realized her passion for clear scientific communication. Melissa is now a medical and scientific writer focused on translating complex scientific messages into understandable English for the public.
Articles written by Melissa Christianson
- Through a Broader Lens: Looking at Non-Motor Symptoms in HD
- Looking Past the Spin: Results from a Clinical Trial of Cysteamine
- A multiple sclerosis drug that works for Huntington's disease: the real deal or too good to be true?
- HDBuzz primer: Clinical trial designs and phases
- A Few Bad Seeds: Using Brain Fluid to Grow Clumps in Brain Cells
- Switching it up: variety in the HD gene affects symptom onset
- A faulty filter? Blood vessel changes in Huntington's disease
- Lighting the way: A new biomarker for Huntington’s disease
- Building a Better Mouse(trap): A New Model of Huntington’s Disease
- Drug Improves Huntington’s Symptoms in Mice – and Their Offspring
- DNA shutdown proteins in Huntington's disease: More than meets the eye
- Lost in translation? New insights into the making of the Huntington's disease protein
- 'Guard dog' proteins reveal surprising connections between Huntington's disease and other brain disorders
- HDBuzz Prize winner 2012: Deep brain stimulation for HD