Research

Research Grant Program

NORD Awards Research Grants 2008

NORD's Medical Advisory Committee has recommended, and the NORD Board of Directors has approved, the awarding of seven research grants in November 2008. The patient organizations that funded the grants (when applicable), investigators, their institutions, and their projects are as follows:

Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia (1 grant available)

Partha Sen, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
“Genotyping and VEGF188 Expression Study for Further Understanding of the Molecular Basis and Pathophysiology of ACD ”

Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome, Type 1 (APS Type 1) (2 grants available),(APS Type1.Org)

Daniela Cihakova, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
“Chronic Candidiasis Develops in the Absence of Normal Aire Function Due to a Defect in the Induction of IL-17 by Dendritic Cells”

Matthias Wabl, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
“Hypermutation as a Cause of Autoimmunity in Aire Deficiency ”

Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy and Related Disorders (2 grants available)

Henry Houlden, MD, PhD
Institute of Neurology, London
“The Identification and Characterization of Disease Genes and Risk Factors that Predispose to Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) ”

Puneet Opal, MD, PhD
Northwestern University
“Molecular Pathways Underlying SCA1 Degeneration ”

Tarlov Cysts (1 grant available)

Tarlov Cyst Disease Foundation)
Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
“Early Detection of Risk Factors for Tarlov Cysts and Their Complications”

Tyrosinemia Type 1 (1 grant available)

Joshua’s Cure.Org/Danielle Barckett Fund
Eugene Swenson, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
“Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation for Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1”