Grants Program 1994 - 1997
Grants Program 1994 - 1997Grantees
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College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University
Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D., project coordinator The development of a protocol and curriculum for addressing the issues related to the predictive testing for Huntington's disease and other late onset disorders. Huntington's disease is the first disorder for which we have the capacity to tell individuals—when they are healthy—that they are destined to die in a particular way. Some of the questions to be addressed are: How do you help people choose whether or not to be tested? How do you help people live with the knowledge of how they will die? | $100,000 |
