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Colby, D.W.; P. Garg; G. Chao; J. Webster; A. Messer; V.M. Ingram; K.D. Wittrup (17 September 2004). "Development of a Human Variable Light Chain Domain Intracellular Antibody against Huntingtin via Yeast Surface Display".
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This was the first time a researcher demonstrated that a single amino acid exchange in a protein can cause a disease or disorder. As a result, Vernon Ingram is sometimes referred to as "The father of Molecular Medicine."
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Ingram, V.M. (2004). "The Role of Alzheimer Aβ Peptides in Ion Transport across Cell Membranes, in Subcellular Biochemistry: Alzheimer's Disease". In Harris, R.; Fahrenholz, F. (eds.).
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was a disease of the neurofilaments; this turned out not to be the cause, but it was noted that people with Down syndrome did develop Alzheimer's Disease by the time they were 40.
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After retirement, Ingram continued his research, maintaining a small laboratory at MIT. He and his wife, Beth, were housemasters of Ashdown House at MIT for 16 years.
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Blanchard, B.J.; A. Chen; C. Kelly; K. Stafford; B. Stockwell; V.M. Ingram (2004). "Novel Compounds eliminate the Neurotoxicity of the Alzheimer Aβ Peptide".
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by a small molecule Barbara J. Blanchard, Albert Chen, Leslie M. Rozeboom, Kate A. Stafford, Peter Weigele, and Vernon M. Ingram PNAS 2004 101: 14326-14332
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faculty in 1958, intending to stay for only one year. He found that he enjoyed it there so much that he stayed on. While at MIT, Ingram collaborated with
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Ingram, V.M.; B.J. Blanchard; A. Chen; C. Kelly; K. Stafford; B. Stockwell (2004). "Blocking the Initial Molecular Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease".
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Hunt, J.A.; V.M. Ingram (1958). "Abnormal Human Haemoglobins. II. The Chymotryptic Digestion of the Trypsin-resistant Core of Haemoglobins A and S".
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Webster, J.M.; D.W. Colby; V.M. Ingram; K.D. Wittrup; A. Messer (November 2004). "Enhanced anti-Huntington's Disease Intrabodies".
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Ingram, V.M. (1957). "Gene Mutations in Human Hemoglobin: The Chemical Difference between Normal and Sickle Hemoglobin".
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Ingram, V.M. (1956). "A Specific Chemical Difference between Globins of Normal and Sickle-cell Anemia Hemoglobins".
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on haemoglobin research. He was also interested in embryonic haemoglobin and how it differed from that of adults.
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differed due to a single substituted amino acid residue. Much of this work was done with the support of
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Inaugural Article: Efficient reversal of Alzheimer's disease fibril formation and elimination of
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It's in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin, and Sickle Cell Anemia
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Blanchard, B.J.; A. Chen; K. Stafford; P. Weigele; V.M. Ingram (5 October 2004).
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After receiving his doctorate, Ingram worked at postdoctoral appointments at the
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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on crystallising proteins. While at Yale, he studied peptide chemistry with
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Abstr. Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Annual meeting
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By the 1980s, Ingram became interested in neuroscience and especially
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Ingram, V.M. (4 March 1961). "Gene Evolution and the Hæmoglobins".
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Abstr. International Congress on Alzheimer's Disease, Philadelphia
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
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is named in their honour. Ingram was Director of the
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in position 6 of the β-chain of the normal protein by
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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