Researchers secure funding to study SynGAP1 protein mutations linked to rare neurodevelopmental disease
09.04.2025
Senior Researcher Pekka Postila from the University of Turku and InFLAMES Flagship has been awarded €120,000 Investigator Award from the California-based SynGAP Research Fund to investigate the effects of missense mutations on the SynGAP1 protein. Additionally, Doctoral Researcher Aliaa E. Ali has received full two-year PhD funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for her work on SynGAP1 modeling.