Dr. Vanessa Casha Earns Hereditary Disease Foundation Prize for Huntington’s Disease Research

Dr. Vanessa Casha earns Hereditary Disease Foundation prize for Huntington’s disease research

Dr. Vanessa Casha, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Brain Research Institute, received the 2025 Hereditary Disease Foundation's Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize in recognition of her advancements in Huntington's disease research.

BUSINESS BRIEF: Wilmington’s Charles River & CHDI Foundation Extend Multi-Decade Collaboration On Huntington’s Disease Research

Below is a press release from Wilmington-based Charles River Laboratories: WILMINGTON, MA — Charles River Laboratories International and CHDI Foundation recently announced an extension of their ongoing drug discovery partnership into the foreseeable future. The organizations began working together in 2005 to expedite therapeutic development for Huntington’s disease (HD), a genetic neurological disorder that causes the progressive dysfunction of …