IN-PERSON: Precision Medicine & Neurodegenerative Disease

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Dr. Thompson completed her PhD in 1989 at UCI and became a faculty member in 2000. Dr. Thompson has studied Huntington’s disease (HD) for most of her scientific career and was a member of the international consortium that identified the causative gene for HD in 1993 while a postdoctoral fellow in the UCI laboratory of Dr. John Wasmuth. She also co-identified the mutation causing achondroplasia, the most common genetic form of short-limbed dwarfism in 1994. Dr. Thompson was one of the founders of the HD patient clinic at UCI, is a member of the Huntington Study Group Scientific Affairs Committee and Enroll-HD Clinical Trial Committee, which are each involved in HD clinical trials, is part of the UCI HDSA Center of Excellence, and is very active in the HD community. Dr. Thompson is a member of the Hereditary Disease Foundation HD Cure Committee, HD CARE Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Huntington’s Disease Society of America SAB Chair and member board of trustees and is founding Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Huntington’s Disease. She also is a member of Scientific Advisory Panels for neural stem cell therapy programs in Italy and Spain and on the SAB for Target ALS and the ALS Packard Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Anna Morenkova is a fellowship-trained UCI Health neurologist who specializes in the care and treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.

Her clinical interests also include dystonia, essential tremor and other tremors, tics and Tourette's syndrome, chorea, Huntington's disease, headaches and migraines, myoclonus, spasticity and botulinum toxin therapy and general neurology.

Morenkova earned her medical degree from Russian State Medical University, followed by a doctorate in neurology and neurophysiology at First Moscow State Medical University. She complete an internal medicine internship and neurology residency, followed by a fellowship in movement disorders at UCI Medical Center.

Host or Publisher Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center