CORD Awards 3-Year Grant to Dr. Sockanathan
Shanthini Sockanathan, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
The Kennedy Snyder Research Chair recipient
CORD Foundation is thrilled to announce Dr. Shanthini Sockanathan as the recipient of The Kennedy Snyder Research Chair. As a result, Johns Hopkins will receive $300,000 over the next three years to fund her research project entiltled, "Molecular Mechanisms of the Glial Specification and Differentiation in the Spinal Cord." Dr. Sockanathan is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The focus of her laboratory is directed towards understanding the signaling events and molecular mechanisms involved in neuronal fate specification.
This award honors Kennedy Snyder who was diagnosed with a high-grade spinal cord tumor at age two and continues her battle today at the age of nine. Kennedy and her family and friends founded Kennedy's CORD Foundation chapter. To learn more about Kennedy's courageous battle, click here.
On behalf of CORD Foundation, its many supporters, and most importantly those who suffer from spinal cord tumors, we would like to thank Dr. Sockanathan for her interest and dedication to finding a cure for this devastating disease. We look forward to receiving word of her progress, and we pray for her success.
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