Funded Grants

FARA-Funded Research Grants

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

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Jun 2023

Identification of concordant electrophysiological biomarkers in Friedreich Ataxia

Donald Joseph, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Jul 2023

Investigating the Mechanosensory System in Friedreich’s Ataxia using Stem Cell Models

Amy Hulme, PhD
University of Wollongong

General Research Grant | Drug Discovery

Grant Awarded | Jul 2023

Discovery of frataxin substitute drug candidates for the treatment of Friedreich’s Ataxia

Benoit D'Autréaux, PhD
CNRS-CEA-Université Paris-Saclay, France

General Research Grant | Drug Discovery

Grant Awarded | Jun 2023

Trojan nanobodies to increase frataxin function

Javier Santos, PhD
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Jun 2023

Measurement of Frataxin mRNA in NHP and human biofluids

Eric Wang, PhD & S.H. Subramony, MD
University of Florida

General Research Grant | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Mar 2023

An optimized deep learning-based method for cerebellum segmentation

Thiago Rezende, PhD¹ & Ian Harding, PhD²
University of Campinas, Brazil¹ & Monash University, Australia²

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Mar 2023

Mechanism of repeat expansion in Friedreich’s ataxia

Andre Nussenzweig, PhD
National Cancer Institute, NIH

General Research Grant | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Mar 2023

An induced pluripotent stem cell model to investigate microglia in Friedreich Ataxia

Massimo Pandolfo, MD and Stefano Stifani, PhD
McGill University

Postdoctoral Research Award | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Mar 2023

Repeat associated non-AUG (RAN) proteins in FA: contribution to disease and therapeutic opportunities

Lisa Romano, PhD, FARA Australia
University of Florida

Keith Michael Andrus Cardiac Award | Cardiac Research

Grant Awarded | Dec 2022

Advancing novel mitochondrial therapies for FA cardiomyopathy: a pragmatic collaboration to move new therapies forward

Laura Kropp, PhD, MPH
Stealth BioTherapeutics