September 2009 – Assistant professor Ben Philpot has been awarded a two-year grant from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation for his research proposal titled “Novel therapeutics for Angelman syndrome by manipulating Ube3a expression.” Funds have been allocated for support of these studies in collaboration with Dr. Bryan Roth.

Additional funding for new equipment in the Philpot lab comes in the form of an R01 grant from the National Eye Institute.