Weihua Zeng, a postgraduate researcher in biological chemistry at UC Irvine, has received a Helen and David Younger Fellowship Grant of $35,500 to study facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a form of the hereditary disease marked by progressive weakness and atrophy of facial, shoulder and upper-arm musculature. Zeng will use the grant, awarded by the FSH Society, to study the changes in the genomes of FSHD patients and to understand how these alterations affect the development of the disease. He hopes to identify the molecular mechanism of FSHD and possibly develop treatments to improve the physical functioning of patients. Zeng works in the laboratory of biological chemistry associate professor Kyoko Yokomori.   More »