Packard Investigator presented with 15th Annual Paulo Gontijo Award at International Symposium on ALS/MND

Packard Center investigator, Dr. Alyssa Coyne, received 15th Annual Paulo Gontijo Award from the Instituto Paulo Gontijo. The prize is awarded to promising young ALS researcher. It was presented to Dr. Coyne at the opening of the 34th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Basel, Switerland.

Dr. Coyne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA), and brought the thesis “Therapeutically targeting NPC injury cascades to alleviate TDP-43 dysfunction in ALS”.