Nigel G Laing, NH&MRC Principal Research Fellowship: neurogenetics – gene discovery, pathobiology, novel therapeutics, novel diagnostics and translation.

我的研究金将扩大我的工作，通过使用新技术发现以前无法发现的人类疾病基因，确定遗传性肌肉和神经疾病的疾病基因。此外，由于我们现在从小鼠研究中得到证据，心脏肌动蛋白是我们发现的由肌肉肌动蛋白突变引起的一组疾病的治疗目标，我们将采取进一步措施，使这种治疗成为患者的现实。

My Fellowship will expand my work identifying diseases genes for genetic muscle and nerve diseases by using new technologies that allow discovery of human disease genes which could not be found before. In addition, since we now have proof from mouse studies that heart actin is a target for therapy for the group of diseases that we discovered caused by mutations in the muscle actin protein, we shall take further steps towards making this therapy a reality for patients.