Frederick Alt, PhD, the Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, was recently awarded a 2018 Major Grant Award by the Charles Hood Foundation for his work on the role of recurrent DNA break cluster genes in brain development and disease.

Alt, along with Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, PhD, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, was the recipient of a 2016-2017 HBI Collaborative Seed Grant, supported by the Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Collaborative Grants Fund for HBI. The new research to be conducted with Hood Foundation support builds upon work launched with that seed project.