Funded Grants

FARA-Funded Research Grants

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General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Oct 2025

Discovery of genetic suppressor mutations that rescue frataxin deficiency

Joshua D. Meisel, PhD
Brandeis University

General Research Grant | Drug Discovery

Grant Awarded | Oct 2025

Pre-clinical assessment of protein replacement therapy in the central nervous system of Friedreich’s ataxia mouse models

Macarena Sanchez Navarro, PhD; Jordi Magrane, PhD; Joaquim Ros, PhD
Instituto de parasitología y biomedicine; Weill Cornell Medicine; Universitat de Lleida

Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award | Lead Candidates

Grant Awarded | Oct 2025

Advancing FA Treatment: Exploring the Pharmacology of Neonatal Cardiac Progenitor Cells for Cardiac and Neuroprotection

Sudish Sharma, PhD; Elena Dedkova, PhD
Secretome Therapeutics; University of California Davis

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Oct 2025

Exploring the Role of Extracellular Traps in the Pathogenesis of Friedreich’s Ataxia

Katia Aquilano, PhD
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2025

Does Frataxin Deficiency Disrupt GluR2 Trafficking in the Cerebellum via Defects in Palmitoylation?

Elizabeth Mercado-Ayon
University of Pennsylvania

General Research Grant | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Sep 2025

Leveraging Real-World Data to Define Clinical Milestones and Assess Pharmacologic Impact in Friedreich’s Ataxia Progression

Charles Venuto, PharmD
University of Rochester

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2025

Preclinical evaluation of novel targets for FRDA cardiomyopathy

Li Li
St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2025

Lipidomic profiling and analyses of Friedreich’s Ataxia iPSC-derived dorsal root ganglia sensory neurons

Mirella Dottori, PhD
University of Wollongong

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Aug 2025

Histone H3 Enzyme Activity as a Regulator of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Stability in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Siavash Kurdistani, MD
University of California Los Angeles

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Aug 2025

Investigating new epigenetic repressor complexes involved in silencing the FXN locus in cells from FRDA patients

Patrick Lomonte, PhD and Hélène Puccio, PhD
Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Aug 2025

The N-terminus of frataxin and its role in FRDA

David Lynch, MD, PhD, Jill Napierala, PhD, Yina Dong, PhD, Ian Blair, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Texas Southwestern, University of Pennsylvania

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Jul 2025

Rational design of new CNS neuronal models for selective vulnerability in FRDA

Pietro Mazzara, PhD
Columbia University