Funded Grants

FARA Funded Research Grants

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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

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Population and cellular heterogeneity in Friedreich Ataxia

Morgan Tackett
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Graduate Research Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Investigating the effects of frataxin deficiency on the human proteome

Angela Xiong
Boston College

Graduate Research Fellowship | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

Elucidation of the peripheral immune axis in FRDA and identification of blood-based biomarkers of inflammation

Shweta Sahni
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

General Research Grant | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Sep 2023

A tractable vertebrate model that recapitulates key aspects of Friedreich Ataxia

Robert Wilson, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Postdoctoral Research Award | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Oct 2023

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in FRDA: Proof-of-concept studies using novel conditioning regimen and the YG8s(GAA)>800 mouse

Hynmin Cho, PhD
Stanford University

General Research Grant | Cardiac Research

Grant Awarded | Oct 2023

Role of the Thromboxane-Prostanoid Receptor in FRDA Cardiomyopathy

Mark Payne, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Nov 2023

Anatomical and functional analysis of corticospinal tract in FRDA mouse model

Misa Nishiyama, PhD
Burke Neurological Institute

General Research Grant | Cell & Animal Models

Grant Awarded | Dec 2023

Modelling Friedreich Ataxia in human iPSC-derived cerebellar organoids

Esther Becker, PhD
University of Oxford

General Research Grant | Gene & Stem Cell Therapy

Grant Awarded | Dec 2022

Evaluation of ARMMs-mediated delivery of Cas9 protein complexed with gRNAs as a non-viral disease-modifying strategy for Friedreich’s Ataxia

Joseph Nabhan, PhD
Vesigen Therapeutics, Cambridge (MA)

Postdoctoral Fellowship | Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

Grant Awarded | Oct 2022

Illuminating how SynGRs liberate gene expression from heterochromatin

Sarah Robinson-Thiewes, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award | Outcome Measures & Biomarkers

Grant Awarded | Aug 2022

Detection and enhancement of tissue NAD+ levels in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Joseph Baur, PhD & Shana McCormack, MD
University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia