Roscoe O.
Brady M.D., Senior InvestigatorDr. Brady attended the Pennsylvania State University and received an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. After interning
at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Physiological Chemistry
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a fellow in clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine. Following
two and one-half years on active duty in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps, he joined the National Institutes of Health where he
is now Chief of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch. He received the Gairdner International Award, the Cotzias
Award from the American Academy of Neurology, the Pasano Foundation Award, the Lasker Foundation Clinical Medical Research
Award, and the Kovalenko Medal from the National Academy of Sciences USA. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Brady's Branch investigates the enzymatic
and molecular bases of hereditary neurometabolic disorders and develops therapies for patients with these conditions.
Laboratory StaffHasan Askari, M.D. Clinical Fellow
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William Benko, M.D. Clinical Fellow
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Camille Butler, Secretary
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Adele Cooney, B.S. Research Assistant
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Ehud Goldin, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow
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Cheryl Hipple, Patient Coordinator
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Christine Kaneski, M.Sc Research Assistant
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Stephanie Kluepfal-Stahl,
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Zhennan Lai, Ph.D. Research Fellow
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Kyun Lee, Ph.D. Research Fellow
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Nga Luu, B.S. Research Assistant
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Gary Murray, Ph.D. Staff Scientist
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Katharine Oliver, M.Sc Research Assistant
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Jane Quirk, M.Sc Research Assistant
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Markus Ries, M.D. Clinical Fellow
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Chevalia Robinson, R.N. Nurse
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Raphael Schiffmann, M.D. Staff Clinician
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Margaret Timmons, M.D. Clinical Fellow
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Gregory Zirzow, B.S. Research Assistant
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Research InterestsThe Branch is concerned with the discovery of the etiology and development of genetic counseling methods and therapy for patients
with neurometabolic disorders. Among these conditions are Gaucher disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Fabry disease and Tay-Sachs
disease. We have developed highly effective enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease and for Fabry disease. We are
exploring methods to deliver therapeutic enzymes to the brain of patients in whom the central nervous system is involved.
We are examining gene therapy for Gaucher disease and Fabry disease. We have developed a knock-out mouse analog of Fabry
disease that has been extraordinarily useful for these trials. We identified the gene that is mutated in the neurogenetic
disorder Type C Niemann-Pick disease. We are investigating the causes and the nature of mutated genes in other neurogenetic
conditions including Mucolipidosis 4, leukodystrophies of unknown etiology, and novel forms of peripheral neuropathies.
We identified two previously unrecognized neurological syndromes known as Childhood Ataxia with Central Nervous System Hypomyelination
(CACH) and ovarioleukodystrophy. Additional previously un-characterized neurological syndromes are currently under investigation.
We are developing novel techniques to determine the effects of enzyme and gene therapy on the brain of patients with inherited
disorders of metabolism.
Selected Recent PublicationsRies M, Gupta S, Moore DF, Sachdev V, Quirk JM, Murray GJ, Rosing DR, Robinson C, Schaefer E, Gal A, Dambrosia JM, Garman
SC, Brady RO, Schiffmann R Pediatric Fabry disease - Pediatrics, Electronic Pages
2005
Goldin E, Stahl S, Cooney A, Kaneski C, Gupta S, Brady RO, Ellis JR, Schiffmann R Transfer of a mitochondrial DNA fragment to MCOLN1 causes an inherited case of Mucolipidosis IV - Human Mutation
24 460-465 2004
Wong K, Sidransky E, Verma A, Mixon T, Sandberg GD, Wakefield LK, Morrison A, Lwin A Colegial C, Allman JM, Schiffmann R Neuropathology provides clues to the pathophysiology of Gaucher disease - Mol. Genet. Metab.
82 192-207 2004
Park J, Murray GJ, Limaye A, Quirk JM, Glederman MP, Brady RO, Qasba P Long-term correction of globotriaosylceramide storage in Fabry mice by recombinant adeno-associated virus-mediated gene transfer.
- Proc Nat Acad Sci USA
100 3450-3454 2003
Brady, RO Enzyme replacement therapy: conception, chaos and culmination Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences
358 915-919 2003
Contact Information Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch, NINDS
Building 10, Room 3D04
10 Center Drive, MSC 1260 Bethesda MD
20892-1260
Telephone:
301-496-
3285 (office), 301-
496-3286 (laboratory),
301-496-
9480 (fax), Email:
bradyr@ninds.nih.gov