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KDA Announces Over $900,000 in Grants and Fellowships

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KDA received an unprecedented number of research proposals this year and has awarded the highest number of grants and fellowships in our history. Congratulations to the following researchers on their awards.

Individual Grants

  • Laura Bott, PhD, Northwestern University
  • Rachel Harding, PhD, University of Toronto
  • Janghoo Lim, PhD, Yale University
  • Rika Maruyama, PhD, University of Alberta

Banbury Team Grants

Andy Lieberman, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

  • Sokol Todi, PhD, Wayne State University
  • Sami Barmada, PhD, University of Michigan

Al La Spada, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine

  • Asuka Eguchi, PhD, University of California Irvine
  • Xavier Salvatella, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

Diane Merry, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University

  • Sokol Todi, PhD, Wayne State University

Waite-Griffin SBMA Fellowships

  • Chris (Changwoo) Lee, PhD, Yale University
  • Caroline Rodrigues, PhD, Case Western Reserve University
  • Ellen Scott, PhD, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

We are grateful to the scientists who submitted so many strong proposals for this year’s program. Project summaries for all awards will be published in the near future on the KDA website. We are especially grateful for the generosity of our donors who made it possible to reach the highest level of funding in KDA’s history. With your continuing support, we can sustain and hopefully surpass our funding to accelerate research toward a cure for Kennedy’s Disease.

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