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Wednesday 12 August 2015

Research news and commentary #6 for 2015


First Crnic Institute Graduate Fellowship Awarded
Global Down Syndrome Foundation, August 2015
... Last week, the first Blumenthal Graduate Fellowship in Down Syndrome was awarded to Amber Sorenson. The fellowship is designed to create a pipeline of excellent investigators engaged in Down syndrome research. Candidates are evaluated on the strength of their proposed science and the likelihood such science will lead to improving outcomes for people with Down syndrome ...
Medical Express, 3rd August 2015
New brain research has mapped a key trouble spot likely to contribute to intellectual disability in Down syndrome. In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience, scientists from the University of Bristol and UCL suggest the findings could be used to inform future therapies which normalise the function of disrupted brain networks in the condition ...

Quantifying Nutrition and Weight Management Challenges with Possible Solutions for Individuals with Down Syndrome 
Caitlin Woglom et al, July 2015
Conference poster presented at Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group meeting in Phoenix, describing four projects conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Down Syndrome Program, Boston and Harvard Medical School.

Dying to Talk - invotation to participate in research
The Dying to Talk project is working out whether a training program delivered to community living staff helps them to have conversations with people with intellectual disability about the end of life. We are checking this by researching with both community living staff and people with intellectual disability. We need to compare people who have received the training program to those who have not (called a comparison group). We are now looking for people to be in the comparison groups.

The researchers are from Sydney University. Contact Michele Wiese on 02 9036 7418 or michele.wiese@sydney.edu.au

Information about two further opportunities to participate in research at Macquarie University and University of Sydney are in this recent post.

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