Together with researchers from Germany, Canada, Turkey and the Czech Republic Åsa Petersén was awarded the JPND grant for the project Delineating the role of HTT Cis-Variants in the pathogenesis of Huntington disease. In Sweden the grant is funded by Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council, and Petersén was awarded SEK 2 500 000.
To initiate the project, a kickoff meeting was held in Istanbul in early July, where all project partners met at Koç University for scientific presentations.