Sean McBride was one of the three winners of the 11th Annual Julius Marmur Award in 2007 for his work on Drosophila models of the cognitive defects in Fragile X Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease. He delivered a talk entitled "Pharmocological Reversal of Age Dependent Behavioral Plasticity Defects in a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer's Disease." Sean is currently completing his clinical clerkships.

The Award is given annually by the Einstein Graduate Division to honor the memory of Dr. Julius Marmur, a member of the faculty for 33 years, for his contributions to understanding the structure of DNA and for his lifelong commitment to graduate education. Dr. Marmur developed the first method to isolate highly purified, high quality DNA.

McBride SM, Choi CH, Wang Y, Liebelt D, Braunstein E, Ferreiro D, Sehgal A, Siwicki KK, Dockendorff TC, Nguyen HT, McDonald TV, Jongens TA. Pharmacological rescue of synaptic plasticity, courtship behavior, and mushroom body defects in a Drosophila model of fragile X syndrome. Neuron. 2005 Mar 3;45(5):753-64.

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