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Anne Buckingham Young

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Anne Buckingham Young is chief of the neurology service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Together with her late husband, John B. Penney, she has made major contributions to the treatment of Parkinson's disease and the discovery of the gene responsible for Huntington's disease.[1]

Anne Buckingham Young
EducationMD-PhD John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Alma materVasser[2]
SpouseJohn B. Penney
Scientific career
InstitutionsMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
  1. ^ "Brainy Women". Harvard Magazine. June 2002. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Anne Buckingham Young '69". Vassar Quarterly. Fall 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2015.