Christine DiDonato

 

Christine J. DiDonato
didonato 

c-didonato@northwestern.edu  

2300 Children's Plaza, Box 211
Room C.321F
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 755-6352
Fax: (773) 755-6345

 

Education 
  Year  Degree  Institution 
  1999 Postdoc Ottawa Health Reserch Instiitute, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
  1995 Ph.D. Ohio State University
  1995 Postdoc Hospital Ste. justine, Montreal, Quebec Canada
  1988 B.S. Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN

 

Work Experience 
  Period  Description  Organization 
  2003 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics Children's Memorial Research Center, Northwestern University

 

Recent Publications 
 

DiDonato, C.J., Parks, R.J and Kothary, R. (2003). Development of a gene therapy strategy for the restoration of survival motor neuron (SMN) expression: implications for SMA therapy. . Human Gene Therapy: 14 (2) 179-188.

Young, P.J., DiDonato, C.J., Hu, D., Kothary, R., Androphy, E.J., Lorson, C.L. (2002). SRp30c-dependent stimulation of survival neuron exon 7 inclusion is facilitated by a direct interaction with hTra2β1. Hum. Mol. Genet.: 11(5) 577-87.

DiDonato, C.J., Lorson, C.L., De Repentigny, Y., Simard L., Chartrand, C., Androphy, E.J., Kothary, R. (2001). Regulation of murine survival motor neuron (Smn) protein levels by modifying Smn exon 7 splicing. Hum. Mol. Genet: 10(23) 2727-2736..

DiDonato, C.J., Brun, T., Simard, L.R. (1999). Genomic organization and complete nucleotide sequence of the murine surivival motor neuron gene (Smn). Mammalian Genome : 10(6) 638-41.

DiDonato, C.J., Chen, X-N., Noya, D., Korenberg, J.R., Nadeau, J.H. Simard, L.R (1997). Cloning, characterization and copy number of the murine survival motor neuron gene: Homolog of the spinal muscular atrophy-determining gene. . Genome Research : 7(4): 339-352.

 

Awards/Honors 
 

2004- present - American Academy of Neurology/Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation SMA Young Investigator Award

1999-2001 - Muscular Dystrphy Assocation Career Development Award

1999-2001 - Families of SMA post-doctoral fellowship

1997-1999 - Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) post-doctoral fellowship