Awards & News

2024 Jason Huang Awarded Irving Klotz Prize for Basic Research from Northwestern University for his Honor Thesis research in the Ma laboratory

2024 Novel Biological Mechanism Discovered That Could Lead to Treatments for Neurological Disorders

2023 New Therapeutic Strategies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

2022 Dr. Yongchao Ma Invested with Children’s Fund Endowed Professorship

2021 Michael Kahl Conferred Mary J. C. Hendrix Outstanding Graduate Student Award

2020 Saravanan Arumugam Honored with Award of Excellence at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute Biomedical Symposium

2019 New Insights Into Role of RNA Methylation in Fragile X Syndrome​

2019 Created for Collaboration

2019 Study Looks at Stem Cells for Answers to How a Type of Autism Develops

​2018 Brittany Edens Honored with Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

2017 New Gene Identified in Lou Gehrig’s Disease

2017 ALS/FTD Genes Reveal Pathways to Pathology​

2016 $1.5 Million Grant for SMA Research to Yongchao Ma​

2016 Yongchao Ma Named Hartwell Investigator and Bestowed Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award

2015 Ma Lab Investigating Neurodegeneration in SMA, Parkinson’s Disease

2015 Pathway Signals Motor Neuron Death in Spinal Muscular Atrophy