Current Grant Recipients
Growing Stronger is currently supporting two leading researchers. Dr. Bober and Dr. Naz, and LP Doc Talk, a series of online, live conversations with world-leading doctors and other experts focused on dwarfism. Read more about them by clicking on the links below.
Dr. Michael Bober
Dr. Michael B. Bober is a pediatric geneticist, director of Nemours’ Skeletal Dysplasia Program and an authority on skeletal dysplasias, brittle bone disease, primordial dwarfism and other genetic disorders of the skeleton. He is a frequent guest lecturer, accomplished author and consultant for numerous television networks, here and abroad.
Read about Dr. Bober's latest research with Dr. Olney in their 2015 year-end report (PDF).
Dr. Sadaf Naz
Dr. Sadaf Naz is Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics at the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. She specializes in the genetics of hearing and movement disorders.
Read about Dr. Naz's latest research on her blog.
Dr. Naz intro
Research updates
LP Doc Talk
LP Doc Talk is a series of online, live conversations with world-leading doctors and other experts focused on dwarfism. We are grateful to the experts listed below who have agreed to be part of LP Doc Talk. Please join us live online for each session, or visit the archived recordings anytime thereafter.
Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium
Growing Stronger is a sponsor of this year's Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium (SDMC) annual meeting. The SDMC's mandate is to improve the lives of people with skeletal dysplasia by optimizing clinical management. The SDMC brings together expert physicians in treating patients with skeletal dysplasia, providing an international, multidisciplinary forum for scientific exchange and education in the expanding field in the clinical care of patients with skeletal dysplasias.
Dr. Michael Bober
Dr. Michael B. Bober is a pediatric geneticist, director of Nemours’ Skeletal Dysplasia Program and an authority on skeletal dysplasias, brittle bone disease, primordial dwarfism and other genetic disorders of the skeleton. He is a frequent guest lecturer, accomplished author and consultant for numerous television networks, here and abroad.
Read about Dr. Bober's latest research with Dr. Olney in their 2015 year-end report (PDF).
Dr. Sadaf Naz
Dr. Sadaf Naz is Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics at the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. She specializes in the genetics of hearing and movement disorders.
Read about Dr. Naz's latest research on her blog.
Dr. Naz intro
Research updates
LP Doc Talk
LP Doc Talk is a series of online, live conversations with world-leading doctors and other experts focused on dwarfism. We are grateful to the experts listed below who have agreed to be part of LP Doc Talk. Please join us live online for each session, or visit the archived recordings anytime thereafter.
Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium
Growing Stronger is a sponsor of this year's Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium (SDMC) annual meeting. The SDMC's mandate is to improve the lives of people with skeletal dysplasia by optimizing clinical management. The SDMC brings together expert physicians in treating patients with skeletal dysplasia, providing an international, multidisciplinary forum for scientific exchange and education in the expanding field in the clinical care of patients with skeletal dysplasias.
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