Funded Grants

FARA-Funded Research Grants

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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

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