Funded Grants

FARA-Funded Research Grants

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General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Mar 2022

Understanding ketogenesis in FRDA: Pathophysiology, biomarkers and nutritional therapies

David Lynch, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Postdoctoral Research Award | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Jan 2022

Investigating epigenetic silencing in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Rucha Sarwade, PhD
Monash University, Australia

Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Jan 2022

Therapeutic activity of a haematopoietic stem cell delivered tissue penetrating peptide in a Friedreich’s ataxia mouse model

Arturo Sala, PhD
Brunel University, London

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Oct 2021

Sphingolipid rheostat as a potential target for Friedreich’s Ataxia

Sara Anjomani-Virmouni, PhD
Brunel University, London

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Oct 2021

Pathophysiology of Muscle Dysfunction in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Chen Liang, PhD
University of Rochester

General Research Grant | Lead Candidates

Grant Awarded | Oct 2021

Testing the efficacy of dietary butyrate in ameliorating ataxic symptoms in Friedreich’s ataxia mouse models

Daniele Lettieri-Barbato, PhD
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Jul 2021

Assessment of early somatosensory impairment in the KIKO mouse model of Friedreich’s Ataxia

Jordi Magrane, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College

General Research Grant | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Jun 2021

Three-dimensional mature cardiac microtissues from human induced pluripotent stem cells to explore mitochondrial dynamics, cardiac function and therapeutic options in Friedreich Ataxia

Paola Costantini, PhD
University of Padova, Italy

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