Current and Recent Research Grants
New Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The NNPDF is very pleased that funding has been approved for the first two Peter G. Pentchev Research Fellowships, and contracts have been finalized for:
Dr. Fabrizio Vacca
‘Analysis of cholesterol export from purified endosomes in NPC cellular models’
Sponsored by Professor Jean Gruenberg, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Two years 1 April 2010 – 1 April 2012 $100,000
Read the Lay Summary for Dr. Vacca's project
Dr. Ian Martin Williams
‘Neurobiology of Purkinje Cells in NPC1’
Sponsored by Professor Fran Platt, University of Oxford, UK
Two years 1 September 2009 – 1 September 2011 $100,000
Read the Lay Summary for Dr. Williams' project
The research funded by the NNPDF is made possible in great part due to the
efforts of our NPD families and their extended
support network via local
community-sponsored events. The NNPDF is truly grateful for this support.
[Dec 18, 2009 mem]
Mouse Model Grant to Jackson Laboratory
The NNPDF is pleased be able to provide $2500 to help defray the costs of processing the mouse model related to Niemann-Pick Disease. The mouse model was created by Dr. Richard Pagano of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and is being processed by the Jackson Laboratory Repository.
The nonprofit Jackson Laboratory Repository in Bar Harbor, Maine, serves as a centralized NIH-funded facility for mouse models used by the international biomedical research community, in both academic and nonprofit institutions.
[Jan 20, 2010 mem]
Edward H. Schuchman, Ph.D. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine). Construction & Characterization of New Mouse Models for Types A & B Niemann-Pick. Click here to read a September 2008 progress summary. Click here to read the May 2009 progress summary.
Frances M. Platt, Ph.D. (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford). Targeting sphingosine storage as a new therapeutic approach for Niemann-Pick Type C. Click here to read the October 2008 progress summary. Click here to read the March 2009 progress summary. Click here to read the October 2009 progress summary.
Seymour Packman, MD, Director, UCSF-Stanford Lysosomal Disease Center
Underwritten by a grant from Genzyme Corporation
(To see a listing of Fellowships funded by the NNPDF, click here.)
(To see a listing of Research Grants funded by the NNPDF, click here.)
(To see a listing of Clinical Research and Services funded by the NNPDF, click here.)
[June 22, 2009 mem]
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