{"id":25390,"date":"2026-04-16T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/?p=25390"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:39:00","slug":"2026-fellow-feature-amy-mascorro-bsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/2026-fellow-feature-amy-mascorro-bsc\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Fellow Feature: Amy Mascorro, BSc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"date-of-publication\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mascorro.png\" width=\"269\" height=\"269\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Meet one of our 2026 Fellows, Amy Mascorro, BSc! <\/strong>Amy Mascorro\u2019s research focuses on repeat expansion disorders, including myotonic dystrophy.<\/p>\n<p>She is a PhD student training in nucleic acid tool development at SUNY Albany under Drs. Jia Sheng and <a href=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/team\/andy-berglund-phd\/\">Andy Berglund<\/a>. In Dr. Berglund\u2019s Lab, she also developed an r(CAG)exp-expressing cell line for small-molecule screening and therapeutic characterization.<\/p>\n<p>She aims to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship and faculty career to advance RNA\/DNA-based therapeutics and mentor the next generation of scientists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/research\/grants-and-funding\/opportunities\/\">Click here to learn more about MDF&rsquo;s research funding opportunities and prior grant recipients.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet one of our 2026 Fellows, Amy Mascorro, BSc! Amy Mascorro\u2019s research focuses on repeat expansion disorders, including myotonic dystrophy. She is a PhD student training in nucleic acid tool development at SUNY Albany under Drs. Jia Sheng and Andy Berglund. In Dr. Berglund\u2019s Lab, she also developed an r(CAG)exp-expressing cell line for small-molecule screening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25464,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}