Funded Grants

FARA Funded Research Grants

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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

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Population and cellular heterogeneity in Friedreich Ataxia

Morgan Tackett
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Investigating the effects of frataxin deficiency on the human proteome

Angela Xiong
Boston College

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Mechanism of neuronal rescue by microglia expressing frataxin and characterization of neuronal defects in Friedreich’s ataxia

Stephanie Cherqui, PhD and Nicole Coufal, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

AAV-mediated therapy for visual impairment associated with Friedreich’s Ataxia

Shannon Boye, PhD
University of Florida

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

Grant Awarded | Jul 2023

Uncovering the function of a conserved site in eukaryotic frataxins

Jordi Tamarit, PhD
Universitat de Lleida, Spain