Yves Sabbagh of Montreal Receives ASBMR Young Investigator Award
Date: August 1, 2001
By: Larry Winger

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MONTREAL, CANADA - The coordinators of the XLH Network received word today that a long-term member of the mailing list (F-HYPDRR), Yves Sabbagh, M.Sc., who is currently doing graduate work towards his Ph.D in the laboratory of Dr. Harriet S. Tenenhouse at McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada, is a recipient of one of the most coveted prizes awarded by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

Yves received the Young Investigator award, which carries a cash stipend, honorary travel arrangements to the annual ASBMR meeting, as well as a plaque, for his work entitled: Turnover and rescue of mutant PHEX proteins sequestered in the endoplasmic reticulum which with co-authors G. Boileau, L. DesGroseillers, and H. S. Tenenhouse, was selected for a plenary poster presentation at the conference. We have discussed this work extensively within the XLH Network, and references to it are available both in our private site, and in our archived email correspondence.

Yves Sabbagh is also familiar to members of the XLH Network for his exhaustive efforts in maintaining the PHEX database of all known mutations associated with this endopeptidase, a resource used as an invaluable reference tool by researchers involved in XLH.

We of the XLH Network are delighted for Yves, and we wish him all the very best in his continued research.

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