Harbor Transcript: Winter 2016

Table of contents

Features

• Life-saving SMA drug is a triumph
  
  Basic research yields a miraculous drug to treat a deadly childhood disease
• “She’s my little fighter”
  
  At age 2, Emma was enrolled in an SMA drug trial. Now she’s walking
• One experiment
  
  See for yourself—the beneficial cellular impact of a drug for SMA
• Research profile: Anthony Zador
  
  A neuroscientist’s revolutionary brain-mapping method revealed
• Challenges that inspire
  
  DNA barcode programs prep thousands of high school students for a future in science

Faculty & Friends

• CSHL ♥ New York
  
• CSHL leads two international teams
  
• Pershing Square Sohn Prize for next-gen cancer therapies
  
• Plant biology program sees the light
  
• Joining a legacy of young leaders
  
• New on Board
  
• Women’s Partnership lauds CSHL alumna
  
• A night at the Museum
  
• Childhood cancer community unites at the Lab
  
• A joint appointment at CSHL and Northwell