With a $35,000 grant from FRAXA Research Foundation in 2003, Dr. Jay Brenman and his team at the University of North Carolina utilized the fruit fly (Drosophila) to model disease and examined the fly model of Fragile X in an effort to understand the basic mechanisms of disease.
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Jay Brenman, PhD, Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, researches how the protein kinase AMPK can be used as a therapeutic target for certain conditions.