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Kunkel to head Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. science panel
The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced today that it has appointed Louis M. Kunkel, professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston, chairman of its scientific advisory committee, which reviews grant applications for basic science research.
In the late 1980s, Kunkel led a team that identified the muscle protein dystrophin and described how its loss is the underlying cause of the most common childhood form of muscular dystrophy.
Kunkel, also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has served on the science panel for 15 years.
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