Funded Grants

FARA Funded Research Grants

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Postdoctoral Research Award | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Apr 2024

Targeting Novel Mitochondrial Pathways for Friedreich’s Ataxia Therapy

Sujyoti Chandra, PhD
Stanford University

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Apr 2024

Dysregulated microglial Ca2+ homeostasis as a pathogenic contributor and therapeutic target in Friedreich’s ataxia

Carla Pernaci, PhD
University of California, San Diego

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Mar 2024

Paired Prime Editors to treat Friedreich’s Ataxia

Jonathan Watts, PhD, Erik Sontheimer, PhD, Scot Wolfe, PhD and Wen Xue, PhD
UMass Chan Medical School

General Research Grant | Lead Candidates

Grant Awarded | Mar 2024

Treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia using novel ferroptosis inhibitors

Brent R. Stockwell, PhD
Columbia University

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Mar 2024

Developing and delivering of novel gene editing technologies to contract GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia

David Rufino-Ramos, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Jan 2024

Deciphering the neurodevelopmental component in Friedreich Ataxia

Lucie Hermet
Institute NeuroMyoGène, Lyon, France

General Research Grant | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Dec 2023

Modelling Friedreich Ataxia in human iPSC-derived cerebellar organoids

Esther Becker, PhD
University of Oxford

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Nov 2023

Anatomical and functional analysis of corticospinal tract in FRDA mouse model

Misa Nishiyama, PhD
Burke Neurological Institute

General Research Grant | Cardiac Research

Grant Awarded | Oct 2023

Role of the Thromboxane-Prostanoid Receptor in FRDA Cardiomyopathy

Mark Payne, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Research Award | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Oct 2023

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in FRDA: Proof-of-concept studies using novel conditioning regimen and the YG8s(GAA)>800 mouse

Hynmin Cho, PhD
Stanford University

Graduate Research Fellowship | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Elucidation of the peripheral immune axis in FRDA and identification of blood-based biomarkers of inflammation

Shweta Sahni
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

General Research Grant | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

A tractable vertebrate model that recapitulates key aspects of Friedreich Ataxia

Robert Wilson, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia