Funded Grants

FARA Funded Research Grants

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Postdoctoral Research Award | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Apr 2021

Hepcidin-Ferroportin axis in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Elisabetta Indelicato, MD, PhD
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Mar 2021

Metabolic (mal)adaptation of heart and skeletal muscle to frataxin depletion

Erin Seifert, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Mar 2021

Regulation of frataxin expression – implications for Friedreich’s ataxia therapy

Jill Napierala, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Mar 2021

Defining the therapeutic window and threshold for neuronal gene therapy in Friedreich Ataxia

Hélène Puccio, PhD
Institute NeuroMyoGène, Lyon, France

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Feb 2021

Constancy of FRDA phenotypes across neuronal types and development

Yutaka Yoshida, PhD & Joriene de Nooij, PhD
Burke Neurological Institute and Columbia University

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Feb 2021

The pathogenesis of the major neural lesions in Friedreich ataxia: dorsal root ganglion and dentate nucleus

Arnulf H. Koeppen, MD
VA Medical Center, Albany

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Dec 2020

Development of autologous transplantation of genetically corrected hematopoietic stem cells for Friedreich Ataxia

Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD
Stanford University

General Research Grant | Lead Candidates

Grant Awarded | Nov 2020

Cardiac benefit of drugs that stimulate Nrf2 and HCA2 pathways in Friedreich’s ataxia

Elena Dedkova, PhD
University of California, Davis

Postdoctoral Research Award | Cardiac Research

Grant Awarded | Jun 2020

Cardiac Imaging Biomarkers in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Marcondes França Jr., MD, PhD & Thiago Rezende, PhD
University of Campinas, Brazil

Bronya J. Keats Research Collaboration Award | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | May 2020

Identification of genetic modifiers of Friedreich’s ataxia

Henry Houlden, MD, PhD
University College London, UK