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24 June 2020

Mohammad Alsady and Federica Conte from the research group ''Glycosylation Disorders in Neurology'' with principal investigator Dirk Lefeber (Neurology and TML), in collaboration with P. Pijnappel (Erasmus MC), have been awarded with the UMD Catalyst Grant to explore the potential of hiPS-derived skeletal muscle cells as model to investigate muscular pathophysiologic mechanisms in phosphoglucomutase I deficiency (congenital disorders of glycosylation) using both steady-state and dynamic tracing MS-based metabolomics.

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