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Dr. Ginty is also Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Mount Saint Mary's College and a Ph.D. degree in physiology from East Carolina University School of Medicine. His dissertation research, performed with Edward Seidel, focused on the regulation of polyamine metabolism during cell growth and proliferation. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ginty studied molecular neurobiology with John Wagner at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and with Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ginty's honors include a Pew Scholars Award, a Klingenstein Award, a Basil O'Connor Scholar Award from the March of Dimes, and a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
David Ginty is interested in the molecular control of differentiation, growth, and survival of neurons in the developing vertebrate peripheral nervous system.
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