Research and HD

Welcome to the Research and HD section of the website! In the past decade, intensive research efforts have given scientists a much better understanding of how HD damages the brain. With this improved insight, researchers throughout the world are actively investigating and testing ways to delay, stop, or reverse the course of the disease.

This section is divided into 4 groups. The “Research Basics” section describes how researchers study HD; the “Research Updates” section talks about some of the discoveries that have been made, and future areas that scientists might study in the future. The “HD Scientists” section gives some insight into the work that some individuals are doing, and the “Research Institutions” section talks about some major sites of HD research.

• Research Basics
  • Studying Huntington’s Disease
  • Clinical Trials on Huntington’s Disease
  • The Huntington’s Disease Pipeline
  • An Introduction to Animal Models of Huntington’s Disease
  • Animal Research: The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
  • The HD Measuring Stick: Assessment Standards for Huntington’s Disease
  • Neuroimaging

• Research Updates
  • Weight Loss: Demystifying a Medical Mystery
  • “Normal” Huntingtin and Huntington’s disease
  • University of California at San Francisco 2010 HD Research Forum
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: the Future of Tissue Regeneration
  • Adipose Derived Stem Cells and HD: The Real Application of iPSCs
  • Induced Neurons
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells
  • Arginine
  • Dietary Restriction
  • Stem Cells
  • The Scientific Approach

• HD Scientists
  • Dr Elena Cattaneo
  • Interview with Dr. Ron Kopito and Dr. Brigit Riley at Stanford University
  • Lawrence Steinman, MD, PhD
  • Dr Rick Morimoto
  • Dr Diana Rosas
  • Drs James Gusella and Marcy MacDonald

• Research Institutions
  • About HDSA Centers of Excellence
  • UC Davis Center of Excellence
  • The Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis Center of Excellence
  • Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence
  • HDSA Center of Excellence and Columbia University
  • Hennepin County Medical Center of Excellence
  • More Research Institutions