NMD4C steering committee member Dr. Jodi Warman Chardon awarded Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair
We are very proud to congratulate our steering committee member, Dr. Jodi Warman Chardon, for her new appointment at the University of Ottawa! Dr. Warman Chardon is now the Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair in Diagnosis and Discovery Pipeline for Patients with Genetic Neuromuscular Disease. She was previously the Junior Clinical Research Chair in Novel Gene Discovery in Neuromuscular Disease. This appointment is an award and an acknowledgement by her peers as an exceptional emerging researcher with the potential to lead in her field. Dr. Warman Chardon’s clinical research focuses on improved genomic and imaging studies for patients with inherited myopathies and neuromuscular diseases.
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Save the Date: 2027 Neuromuscular Postdoctoral Fellowship Funding Competition
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