Research Grants for Rare Disorders - LOI

Sponsor Deadline: 

Sep 16, 2021

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Sep 16, 2021

Sponsor: 

Orphan Disease Center

UI Contact: 

tracy-titus@uiowa.edu

Updated Date: 

Aug 17, 2021

The Orphan Disease Center (ODC) at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 2021 Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program. The program offers up to 42 different research grant opportunities focusing on 29 different rare diseases. The number of awards and dollar amounts vary per disease based on fundraising totals by each disease team. This Request for Applications (RFA) is open to the international research community. All individuals holding a faculty‐level appointment at an academic institution or a senior scientific position at a non-profit institution or foundation are eligible to respond to this RFA. 
https://www.orphandiseasecenter.med.upenn.edu/grants/event-five-pk3yg-b7zlm

Research Areas:

  • Adult-onset Polyglucosan Body Disease (APBD)
  • Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T)
  • Beta-propeller Protein-Associated Neurodegeneration (BPAN)/Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Disorder (NBIA) Disorders
  • Castleman Disease
  • CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD)
  • Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy/CADASIL
  • Choroideremia (CHM)
  • Congenital Hyperinsulinism (HI)
  • Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)
  • Cohen Syndrome (CS)
  • Complex Lymphatic Anomalies (CLA)
  • Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune-Albright Syndrome (FD/MAS)
  • Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
 
  • Glucose Transporter 1 Deficiency Syndrome (Glut1DS)
  • Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
  • Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)
  • Mucolipidosis Type IV (ML4)
  • Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)
  • Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS I) Gene Spotlight
  • Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy (NEHI)
  • Niemann Pick Type C (NPC)
  • Nonsense Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis
  • NUBPL: A Mitochondrial Disease
  • Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS)
  • RASopathies
  • SETBP1
  • Snyder-Robinson Syndrome (SRS)
  • STXBP1 Encephalopathy
  • Telomere Biology Disorders, including Dyskeratosis Congenita
  • TBCK Syndrome

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