Funded Grants

FARA-Funded Research Grants

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General Research Grant | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Jun 2024

Multimodal peripheral nervous system imaging to quantify, monitor, and understand the neuropathy of Friedreich ataxia

Roderick Maas, MD, Nens van Alfen, MD, PhD, Bart P. van de Warrenburg, MD, PhD
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen

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