Entries by PHRF

The Quality of Souls

The Quality of Souls A mother works to find a cure for her son’s syndrome,  Spring 2013 by AUDREY DAVIDOW LAPIDUS (COL ’95) Calvin didn’t roll over. He didn’t crawl. When all the other babies were babbling and taking wobbly steps, he was just lying there, smiling. Always smiling. I tried to convince myself that he […]

TCF4 Simulation Video

MD Simulation of TCF4 bound to CREB-binding protein video by Ryan Godwin, Ph.D. student, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University Sam Cho, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, WFU Class name: PHY 320/620: Physics of Biological Macromolecules, Fall Semester 2012 View video here: TCF4 and CREB-binding Protein MD Simulation from Sam Cho on Vimeo. Final Project: MD Simulation of TCF4 bound to […]

Grant Recipients, Spring 2013

David Sweatt, PhD  Evelyn F. McKnight Chair, Dept of Neurobiology; Director, McKnight Brain Institute; University of Alabama at Birmingham The identification of the dysfunctional TCF4 transcription factor gene as the genetic basis of Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome is a critical step forward in beginning to understand the diagnosis, etiology and molecular biology of PTHS. This project encompasses a set of […]

Verbal Victor App

  To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, NBC Latino is honoring and featuring 20 Hispanic-Americans pioneering change in the country and in the community. PAUL PAUCA dreams up app to communicate with disabled son by Sandra Marquez Stathis 5:00 am on 09/18/2012  The diagnosis came when little Victor was just 2 1/2 years-old. The North Carolina boy […]