Department News
Graduate student Sakura Hamazaki awarded the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations to graduate student Sakura Hamazaki for being awarded the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Fellowship for her grant application entitled “Impact of calcium entry through Cav1.1 in myotonic dystrophy myopathy” to the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (MDF) 2024 Research Fellowship Program.
This two-year fellowship award will fund Sakura’s research project and will help to support families living with myotonic dystrophy.
The MDF indicated that this round of applications was extremely competitive.