OSU Appointment:

• Professor, Department of Pathology, 2000-2001
• Director, Division of Molecular Pathology, 2000-2001

Education:

• Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A., 1978
• Upstate Medical Center, New York, M.S., 1981
• MCV, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph.D., 1988

Post Doctoral Fellowship:

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1988-89

Certification:

• Subspecialty - Clinical Molecular Genetics, American Board of Medical Genetics, 1993

Current Funding:

• Muscular Dystrophy Association, Mutational Analysis of Spinal Muscular Atropy, $120,000.00, ; budget period: 7/1/99-6/30/01
• NIH (R01 NS38650-01), Therapeutic Approaches to SMA, $879,959.00, ; budget period: 3/1/99-1/31/03

Current Publication:

• Monani UR, Sendtner M, Coovert DD, Parsons DW, Andreassi C, Lee TT, Jablonka S, Schrank B, Rossol W, Prior TW, Morris GE, and Burghes AHM., The Human Centromeric Survival Motor Gene (SMN2) Rescues Embryonic Lethality in Sms-/- mice and Results in a Mouse with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Human Molecular Genetics 9, 333-339, 2000,