NIH News Advisory - Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation Press Conference

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
Thursday, July 10, 1997
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Margo Warren, NINDS
(301) 496-5751
Jeff Witherly, NHGRI
(301)402-8564
Nancy Creel, APMRF, Rockbridge Group
(301) 951-7101, ext. 200

Press Conference

Sponsored by the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation (APMRF)

Announcing the identification of a gene for the fatal childhood cholesterol disorder, Niemann-Pick type C

The research report appears in the July 11 issue of the journal Science.

Thursday, July 10, 1997
1:00 p.m.
Lisagor Room
National Press Club
14 and F Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.

Featuring research scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including:

Zach W. Hall, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Peter G. Pentchev, Ph.D., of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch of NINDS;
Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
William J. Pavan, Ph.D., of the NHGRI Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research