David Ginty

Dr. David D. Ginty (born 1962) is an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist.

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He graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College and received his Ph.D. degree in physiology from East Carolina University for graduate work with Edward Seidel, on the regulation of polyamine compounds and their metabolism during cell growth and proliferation. Moving to Boston, Ginty completed postdoctoral research, first, with John Wagner at the Dana Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, and then with Michael Greenberg at the Children's Hospital Boston, where he made several seminal contributions to signal transduction and growth factor signaling in neurons.^[1] In 1994, he was invited by Solomon Snyder to move to Baltimore, Maryland, to become a new faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, he is the professor of Neuroscience and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[2] In addition, he oversees the Neuroscience Graduate program of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Neuron.^[3] In the mid-1990's, he received several young investigator awards including a 1995 Klingenstein Award,^[4] a 1996 Pew Biomedical Scholar Award,^[5] the Basil O'Conner Scholar Award from the March of Dimes.^{[citation needed]} After becoming established, he received a Jacob Javitz Neuroscience Investigator's Award from the National Institutes of Health.^[6][7] His lab at Johns Hopkins performs research on several aspects of neuronal development by nerve growth factor (NGF) in the development and maintenance of sympathetic and sensory neurons.

References

1. ^ David D. Ginty, Ph.D.. HHMI Investigators. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
2. ^ David Ginty. Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2005). Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
3. ^ Contact Neuron. Neuron. Elsevier (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
4. ^ Klingenstein Fellowship Awards: 1995. The Esther A. & and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
5. ^ David D. Ginty. Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The Center for Health Professions, University of California San Francisco (2006-07-10). Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
6. ^ Grant Number: 5R37NS034814-13 (Abstract; Database Entry). CRISP. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
7. ^ Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (R37). National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. National Institutes of Health (2006-07-06). Retrieved on 2007-11-17.