6/12/2009: Detroit, MI—Wayne State Welcomes Fulbright Scholar and CMT Researcher

The Wayne State University School of Medicine welcomes Joshua Burns, who will spend three months here as a 2009 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar.

Dr. Burns is a faculty member of the University of Sydney, Australia, and a National Health and Medical Research Council Australian Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute for Neuromuscular Research (Children's Hospital Westmead). He will work with Michael Shy, M.D., and other researchers in the Department of Neurology and the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics to undertake research on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

CMT is the most common genetic nerve disease that causes progressive muscle weakness, painful foot deformities and walking difficulty. He will use his Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship to initiate long-term collaboration between a unique group of experts who are world leaders in many aspects of clinical and laboratory CMT research.

"Between the Institute for Neuromuscular Research and the Department of Neurology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University, we care for thousands of children and adults with CMT,” Dr. Burns said. “We are dedicated to improving diagnosis, evaluating state-of-the-art therapies and establishing an internationally recognized research program to achieve coordinated excellence of care throughout Australia and the U.S."

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