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 WS Research Groups

Belgium

Université libre de Bruxelles, Center for Diabetes, Research

  • Mariana Igoillo Esteve, PhD - Mechanisms of Monogenic Diabetes, GLP-1 treatment for Wolfram syndrome
  • Miriam Cnop MD, PhD - Beta cell dysfunction and Monogenic Diabetes, GLP-1 clinical trial for Wolfram syndrome

KU Leuven

  • Catherine Verfaillie, MD  - (SCIL) creating models for neurodegenerative disorders to allow study of mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration
  • Geert Bultynck, PhD - Calcium signaling in WFS1 knockout cells (LCMS)
  • Lieve Moons, PhD - molecular mechanisms underlying neural circuit development, neuroinflammation, neuronal survival and regeneration
  • ​Jan Parys - Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Signaling (LCMS)

Denmark

University of Copenhagen
  • Lisbeth Tranebjærg, MD, PhD  - ​Genetics of Wolfram syndrome

Estonia


University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia -Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine
  • Mario Plaas, PhD - Rodent models of Wolfram syndrome, GLP-1 treatment for Wolfram syndrome
  • Eero Vasar, MD, PhD - Molecular mechanisms of Wolfram syndrome

Tartu University Children's Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
  •  Vallo Tillmann, MD - Diabetes and endocrine issues in Wolfram syndrome, Pediatric endocrinology

Finland

University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Mart Saarma, PhD - signaling and biological functions of GDNF family ligands and endoplasmic reticulum located CDNF/MANF neurotrophic factor families
  • Maria Lindahl, PhD - Genetics, cell and molecular biology

France

Molecular Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Montpellier, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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  • Benjamin Delprat, PhD - Therapeutic development (gene therapy, drug development), iPSC, rodent and zebrafish models,  Molecular mechanisms
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INSERM - Institute of Neurosciences of Montpellier
  • Cécile Delettre, PhD - ER-mitochondria and Wolfram syndrome, mechanisms of visual impairment, gene therapy, pathophysiology and therapy of inherited optic neuropathies
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Université Côte d’Azur, CHU, Inserm, CNRS, IRCAN, France
  • Véronique Paquis-Flucklinger,MD, PhD - Genetics of Wolfram syndrome
  • Laetitia Aubry, PhD - study of the therapeutic application potentials of iPSCs in Wolfram Syndrome​

I-STEM - Evry, France
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Germany

Centrum für Reproduktionsmedizin und Andrologie,
​WHO Kollaborationszentrum, EAA, Ausbildungszentrum, Universitätsklinikum Münster
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  •  Julia Rohayem, MD, PhD  - Pediatric Endocrinology with expertise in Wolfram syndrome, Andrology

Israel

Hadassah Medical Center
  • Gil Leibowitz, MD - Senior physician in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Beta-cell ER stress and function

Italy

Università degli  Studi di Messina - Messina, Italy
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  • Luciana Rigoli, MD - Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology

Japan

University of Yamaguchi
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  • ​Yukio Tanizawa, MD, PhD - Biology of pancreatic Beta Cells, research in GLP-1 receptor signaling, ER stress and beta cell function

Poland

Medical University of Lodz
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  • ​Wojciech Mlynarski, MD, PhD - Genetic forms of diabetes, head of Department of pediatric oncology, hematology and diabetology

Spain

Servicio Andaluz de Salud
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  • ​Gema Esteban Bueno, MD  - Coordinator of multidisciplinary team for Wolfram syndrome
Laboratorio de Genética Molecular, IDIBELL, l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Miguel López de Heredia, PhD - Studies molecular mechanisms and genotype-phenotype correlations in Wolfram syndrome and cystinuria
  • Virginia Nunes, PhD - Cancer and human molecular genetics

United Kingdom

University of Birmingham
  • Timothy Barrett, MD, PhD - leading an international randomised controlled trial of repurposed therapy in Wolfram syndrome, performs  functional genetic studies and  translational research with inherited forms of diabetes
University of Cambridge
  • Patrick Yu-Wai-Man - Academic neuro-ophthalmologist with specialist research interest in genetic treatment for mitochondrial eye disorders and WS vision loss

United States

Washington University School of Medicine

  • Fumihiko Urano,  MD, PhD. - Therapeutic development (regenerative therapy, gene therapy, drug development), iPSC and rodent models, Medical Genetics, Genetic testing, Molecular mechanisms
  • Tamara Hershey, PhD. - Neuroimaging of patients with Wolfram syndrome, WU Wolfram Research Clinic
  • Bess Marshall, MD - Diabetes and endocrine issues in Wolfram syndrome, Pediatric endocrinology
  • Angela Reiersen, MD - Psychiatric Diagnoses in Wolfram syndrome, Child and adolescent psychiatric disorders, Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • ​Neil White, MD - Diabetes and endocrine issues in Wolfram syndrome, Pediatric endocrinology
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NCATS/NIH

  • Mark Henderson, PhD - Collaborates with both academic and NIH investigators on projects  that aim to identify small molecules that can be used to understand and/or modulate pathogenic events
  • Anton Simeonov, PhD - Scientific director at NCATS, novel detection chemistries and techniques
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Yale University

  • Barbara Ehrlich PhD - Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Study of cell mechanisms for regulation of intracellular calcium concentration
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University of Chicago

  • Louis Philipson, MD, PhD - endocrinologist and a leading world authority on diabetes mellitus
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Columbia University

  • Wendy Chung, MD, PhD -  Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics
  • Rudolph Leibel, MD - Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics
  • Dieter Egli, PhD - study of stem cell derived human beta cells, study of pluripotent stem cells
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University of Kansas Medical Center

  • Hao Zhu, PhD - CISD2 research
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