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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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