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Grant types, Deadlines, and Budget Limits
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| Grant Type |
Letter of Intent
(LOI) Deadline |
Application Deadline |
Award Notice |
Grant start dates |
Maximum Budget
(in US dollars) |
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General Research Grant |
Feb 15
Aug 15 |
Apr 15
Oct 15 |
Aug 1
Feb 1 |
Sep 1 - Oct 1
Mar 1 - Apr 1 |
$125,000 per year for 1 or 2 years |
The General Research Grant is open to qualified investigators proposing projects that fall within FARA
Research Priorities, as outlined here. Please click here for information
on application requirements. To view lay
abstracts of recent FARA-funded General Research Grants, click here.
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Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) |
No LOI |
Feb 1 |
May 1 |
Jun 1 - Jul 1 |
$100,000 for 1 year |
The Award for Innovative Mindset (AIM) supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain, and potentially
groundbreaking concepts in FA research, that will foster new directions, bring new perspectives to the field and address neglected
issues in FA research. The presentation of preliminary and/or published data is encouraged, but not required.
Please click here for information on application requirements.
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Keith Michael Andrus
Cardiac Award |
Jan 15 |
Mar 15 |
Jul 1 |
Aug 1 - Sep 1 |
$150,000 per year
for 1 or 2 years |
The Keith Michael Andrus Cardiac Research Award was made in honor of its namesake to remember
Keith's legacy
and to help advanced our understanding and treatment of the cardiomyopathy associated with FA.
Proposals for this award should focus on advancing understanding and/or treatment of the cardiac involvement in FA.
Please click here for information on application requirements.
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Kyle Bryant Translational
Research Award |
Jan 15 |
Mar 15 |
Jul 1 |
Aug 1 - Sep 1 |
$250,000 per year
for 1 or 2 years |
The Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award honors its namesake for his diligent efforts to aid in the
acceleration of preclinical studies to early pilot trials in FA patients. This award is given to proposals focused on
pre-clinical and clinical investigations that will advance treatments for FA.
Please click here for information on application requirements.
The specific aims must target one or more of the following:
- Identification of biomarkers for FA that will elucidate disease variability, severity, and prognosis; facilitate
drug screening, and/or optimize selection of patients and clinical endpoints for clinical trials;
- Development of tools and technologies that can
(a) be directly used for therapy development;
(b) overcome existing obstacles to treatment and
(c) be directly applied to, or adapted for, delivery of potential therapeutics;
- Pre-clinical development and testing of potential therapeutics, biologics, and devices in cells and animals;
- Clinical studies of patient outcome measures.
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Bronya J. Keats
Research Collaboration Award |
Jan 15 |
Mar 15 |
Jul 1 |
Aug 1 - Sep 1 |
$200,000 per year
for 1 or 2 years |
The Bronya J. Keats Research Collaboration Award honors its namesake for her academic career in understanding the GAA triplet repeat mutation in FA, and her continued role in managing FARA's grant program. Proposals should focus on FA research that relies on collaboration among investigators from at least two different Institutions. Special consideration will be given to proposals that involve international collaborations and bring new scientists to the FA community. The rationale for the collaboration needs to be convincing and must clearly demonstrate that the research goals could not be achieved by just one of
the participating groups and that the synergy among the groups is essential for the success of the project.
Please click here for information on application requirements.
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Postdoctoral
Research Award |
Feb 15
Aug 15 |
Apr 15
Oct 15 |
Aug 1
Feb 1 |
Sep 1 - Oct 1
Mar 1 - Apr 1 |
$100,000 per year
for 1 or 2 years |
FARA offers a Postdoctoral Research Award as a mechanism to expand and retain young investigators in the FA biomedical research space.
For this application type, the Postdoctoral trainee is the PI of the grant proposal. Applicants must have completed at least 18 months of postdoctoral training. Postdoctoral trainees should focus their research proposal on projects that fall within FARA Research Priorities, as outlined here. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement describing their current position and plans for the future as it relates to FA research, with a description of career goals and how the proposed research and research environment will favor achieving those goals. A mentoring plan developed jointly by the junior investigator and mentor(s), as well as letters of support from all mentors are also required. The only allowable budget items are the trainee’s salary/stipend (not to exceed the appropriate NIH stipend level), plus applicable fringe benefits and supplies. The trainee is required to contribute at least 75% effort to the proposed work. Competitive candidates demonstrate qualities that will enhance FARA's overall enterprise of understanding fundamentals of disease pathology and developing treatments and a cure for FA. Please click here for information on application requirements.
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Postdoctoral
Fellowship |
Feb 15
Aug 15 |
Apr 15
Oct 15 |
Aug 1
Feb 1 |
Sep 1 - Oct 1
Mar 1 - Apr 1 |
Trainee salary
up to 2 yrs |
FARA offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship. For this application type, the PI of the grant proposal may be either the trainee or the trainee's faculty advisor; however, both the trainee and advisor must be named in the application. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement describing their current position and plans for the future as it relates to FA research, with a description of career goals and how the proposed research and research environment will favor achieving those goals. A mentoring plan developed jointly by the junior investigator and mentor(s), as well as letters of support from all mentors are also required. The only allowable budget item is the trainee salary/stipend (plus applicable fringe benefits), which must not exceed the appropriate NIH stipend level. Postdoctoral trainees should provide a minimum 75% effort contributed to the
design, writing and implementation of the proposed work. Please click here
for information on application requirements.
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Graduate Research Fellowship |
Mar 15 |
May 15 |
Sep 1 |
Oct 1 - Nov 1 |
$50,000 per year up to 3 years |
FARA offers a Graduate Research Fellowship. This competitive fellowship provides 1 to 3 years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree (or equivalent). FARA will award up to 3 Graduate Research Fellowships per year. For this application type, the PI/applicant of the grant proposal is the graduate student. Applicants need to be matriculated in the chosen graduate school and have a chosen thesis adviser at the time of application. Proof of passing qualifying exam, if applicable, is required at time of application or must be provided within a year of receiving the award, to receive funding for years 2 and 3. The research proposal must focus on projects that fall within FARA’s Research Priorities, as outlined here https://www.curefa.org/grant-priorities. Preliminary data are encouraged but not required. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement describing their plans for the future as it relates to FA research, with a description of career goals and how the proposed research and research environment will favor achieving those goals. A mentoring plan developed jointly by the graduate student and the primary research mentor, as well as a mentor’s letter of support are also required. The only allowable budget items are the graduate student’s salary/stipend (not to exceed the NIH stipend level), plus applicable fringe benefits (including health insurance) and tuition costs and fees that are not already covered by the institution. The majority of the student’s time should be dedicated to this project. Recipients of this Fellowship are encouraged to attend the International Congress for Ataxia Research and FARA will facilitate their participation. Please click here for information on application requirements.
Eligibility
- Individuals must be enrolled full-time in a research-based (dissertation-required) program, leading to a Ph.D. (or equivalent) at a not-for-profit U.S. or foreign institution of higher education at the time of application. Applicants must be matriculated in the chosen graduate school and have a chosen thesis adviser.
- Proof of passing qualifying exam, if applicable, is required at the time of application or must be provided within a year of receiving the award, to receive funding for years 2 and 3.
- Individuals must be enrolled full-time and may not accept full-time teaching or research assistantships or internships during fellowship tenure.
- May not be a recipient of another fellowship / studentship / scholarship, or a previous recipient of this fellowship.
- Must remain in good academic standing per guidelines of the chosen graduate program.
- This fellowship can support the Ph.D. portion of an M.D./Ph.D. joint program, if this is not already supported through institutional funds.
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Request for Proposals
and Ad-hoc Requests |
FARA will issue requests for proposals (RFPs) on an ad-hoc basis.
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All RFPs will be announced through this webpage and through our e-bulletin list. If you are not a subscriber please click here to sign-up. Our latest RFP announcement can be found
here. Lastly, FARA is willing to consider ad-hoc proposals
off cycle that are high-value projects. For more information, please contact FARA at
grants@curefa.org
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The FARA Fellow Program
The FARA Fellow Program recognizes young investigators who will commit their early career to FA research. Growing and training the next generation of FA scientists is a priority for FARA and this program provides young investigators the opportunity to grow their profile within the research community and network with other investigators, together with a cash award and opportunity to attend scientific conferences.
Eligible candidates are postdoctoral trainees who have demonstrated or hold promise for outstanding research achievements in FA. Both new and existing postdoctoral trainees with fewer than 6 years working as a postdoctoral trainee, accounting for career disruptions, and fewer than 4 years working in an FA lab as a postdoctoral trainee, can be nominated to receive the award. Nominations must be submitted by the trainee’s PI or prospective PI and consist of the trainee’s CV, documentation providing evidence that the PI can support the trainee’s salary for 2 years and a letter briefly describing how the trainee’s qualities and research accomplishments will support FARA's mission of developing treatments and a cure for FA.
The award consists of $10,000 USD and financial support to attend one scientific conference per year and the FARA & CHOP FA Symposium in Philadelphia (maximum covered cost of $4000 USD that includes: airfare in coach class, hotel accommodation and conference registration fees. These expenses will be reimbursed directly by FARA). Postdoctoral trainees can be nominated and receive the award for a maximum of 3 years, but nominations are required each year. Nominations must be submitted by the PI and include trainee’s CV, documentation providing evidence that the PI can support the trainee’s salary and a letter briefly describing the trainee’s research accomplishments.
As FARA Fellows, trainees will be invited to attend round table discussions with other Fellows, present at the FARA Forum and at the FARA Flash Talks, and contribute their FA knowledge and results of their research to the FA CollaMap (
https://www.collamap.org/).
Nomination must be submitted by June 1 via email to
grants@curefa.org. For more information, please email
grants@curefa.org
Grant program updates and announcements
The FARA forum webinars
The FARA Forum is a monthly webinar featuring investigators who have been awarded FARA grants.
The webinar is open to FARA grant awardees and it is held on the second Tuesday of every month.
For more information contact liz.soragni@curefa.org
Feb 14, 2023 12 PM ET
Natalia Gomez Ospina - Stanford University
Mar 14, 2023 12 PM ET
Marco Carpenter - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
COVID-19 emergency:
If you have been awarded a FARA grant, we will continue to request progress reports as they are due. If your work has been impacted by the COVID-19 emergency – for example if milestones could not be met or no work at all could be performed – we ask you to provide an explanation of how the COVID-19 emergency has impacted your research. We are also requesting that you inform FARA of what actions and measures are needed to assist you in restoring and reestablishing your research. We realize that there may be requests for re-budgeting and no-cost extensions and these decisions will be made on a case by case basis, FARA is implementing a maximum flexibility approach, to meet the needs of our research community and help its recovery.
Please contact us at
grants@curefa.org or
liz.soragni@curefa.org, at any time if you have questions or concerns.
