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Accelerating Drug Discovery Grant

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Foundation Grants for Science Research

Funding Amount

Not stated

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Overview

Funder: The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) and Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (joint effort)

Program Status: Active

Geographic Scope: Not specified

Focus Areas:

Drug discovery and therapeutic development for FTD
Translational research
Gene therapy approaches

Overview:
The Accelerating Drug Discovery Grant is a collaborative funding program between AFTD and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation designed to support researchers in developing therapeutic strategies and drug candidates for FTD.

Notable Recipient Example:

Thomas Kukar, PhD - Received 2017 Accelerating Drug Discovery Grant (building on 2014 Pilot Grant) to develop therapeutic strategies to replace granulins and explore gene therapy approaches for progranulin-related FTD

Address: 2700 Horizon Drive, Suite 120, King of Prussia, PA 19406

What The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025: 6
Total given: $1.55M
Median grant: $175K
Range: $100K–$700K

By dollars: New York 45%, Pennsylvania 19%, Missouri 15%. Top recipient cities: New York, NY; King of Prussia, PA; St. Louis, MO.
0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.

Example grants

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation · New York, NY

Addf/aftd drug discovery program and treat treatftd therapeutic initiative

$700K
The FTD Disorders Registry · King of Prussia, PA

Ftd patient registry

$287K
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO

Pathways for hope pilot grant

$230K
Stanford University · Stanford, CA

Holloway postdoctoral fellowship

$120K
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX

Well-being in ftd pilot grant

$110K