With a $157,000 grant from the FRAXA Research Foundation in 2012-2013, Dr. Kendal Broadie and Dr. Cheryl Gatto worked to define the distinct but also overlapping roles for MMP-1 and MMP-2 in synaptic structural and functional development. In drug studies with Fragile X fruit flies, they will be testing a range of MMPIs in drug treatments to compare effectiveness during development and at maturity, in order to define the contributions of FXS developmental impairments and adult recovery/plasticity.
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Cheryl Gatto, PhD, PMP, Associate Director at Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, is currently providing leadership in program development, research support infrastructure, and enhancing cross-disciplinary integrations in research and clinical practices.