Filiano Receives Hartwell Foundation Grant to Study a Deadly Childhood Disease

Anthony Filiano, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery in the School of Medicine, is one of 10 recipients of the 2022 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. Filiano will receive $100,000 a year for the next three years for his project, "Reviving Brain Myelination as a Curative Therapy for Leukodystrophy.” Leukodystrophy refers to a group of devastating childhood disorders in which there is a breakdown of the white matter (myelin sheath) of the brain and spinal cord. Filiano’s...