Neil Aronin

Neil has been a practicing endocrinologist for more than 20 years and is currently affiliated with UMass Memorial Medical Center. In 2015, Neil was awarded the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s prestigious Research Award in recognition of his transformative contributions to what is now known about Huntington’s disease, a rare, inherited neurodegenerative condition. Neil’s exemplary research into Huntington’s disease has spanned three decades, with his most recent work focusing on exploring the disease’s mechanisms of pathogenesis, such as mutant Huntington mRNA kinetics, vesicle recycling and roles of proteins that interact with the expanded Huntington protein. Presently, Neil is exploring gene silencing for Huntington’s disease, along with a way to use viral delivery of next-generation treatments that could be studied and modified further to address a wider range of autosomal dominant conditions. He received his medical degree from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.