Dr. Grace Hobson is Head of the Neurogenetics Research Laboratory and Director of Diagnostics for PMD at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She obtained a B.S. in biology from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA and a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. She was a high school and junior high school science/biology teacher before getting a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in Newark, DE and embarking on a career in research and molecular diagnostics. Dr. Hobson's research is aimed at discovering molecular mechanisms in PMD that will allow the development of rational treatments and ultimately a cure. She has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund this work. Dr. Hobson has participated in meetings, symposia, workshops and family conferences on PMD. In addition, she helped to organize a PMD family meeting in 2000 and a symposium for families and researchers at the duPont Hospital in 2003. Her contact with families, genetic counselors and physicians through her molecular diagnostics work will allow her to refer patients to The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project for support.