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Accelerating Drug Discovery Grant

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Overview

Accelerating Drug Discovery Grant

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
  • Contact: AFTD HelpLine: 1-866-507-7222 or [email protected]

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

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    Fields of Work

    science-research

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