Grants & Fellowships

HDF is passionate about finding and funding the most promising, creative and paradigm-changing research.

“ The Hereditary Disease Foundation creates a culture of creativity, excellence, collaboration, and a sense of community and shared purpose which helps to attract generations of scientists to join and stay in the field. Looking back on the decades of my scientific career, it all started with my very first grant from the Foundation.”

X. William Yang, MD, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

HDF is passionate about finding and funding the most promising, creative and paradigm-changing research.

X. William Yang, MD, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Data generated with HDF grants has allowed many researchers to receive major long-term funding from other sources, including the National Institutes of Health.

The following is a list of currently funded HDF researchers.

Grants

Gabriel Balmus, PhD
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bogdan Bintu, PhD
University of California, San Diego

Verónica Inés Brito, PhD
University of Barcelona, Spain

Jeffrey Carroll, PhD
University of Washington

Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Gladstone Institutes; University of California, San Francisco

Rachel J. Harding, PhD
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Housman, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Icnelia Huerta Ocampo, MD, PhD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Ali Khoshnan, PhD
University of Southern California

Tamara Maiuri, PhD
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

A. Jenny Morton, PhD, ScD, FRSB
University of Cambridge, England

Christopher E. Pearson, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chiara Scaramuzzino, PhD
Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France

Charlene Smith, PhD
University of California, Irvine

X. William Yang, MD, PhD
Semel Institute and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Swati Balakrishnan, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada

Natalia Barbosa, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Ivana Vujkovic Bukvin, PhD
Stanford University

Katherine Croce, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Hassan Fakih, PhD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Terence Gall-Duncan, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carolina Gubert, PhD
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health/University of Melbourne, Australia

Joseph Hamilton, PhD
University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom

Ryan Hildebrandt, PhD
University of Florida

Hyeseung Lee, PhD
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Srivathsa Magadi, PhD
Linköping University, Sweden

Christian Makhoul, PhD
University of Melbourne, Australia

Devon Pendlebury, PhD
University of California, Irvine

Sridhar Selvaraj, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Xiaojing Sui, PhD
Northwestern University

Click here if you’re interested in applying for funding.

Click here to see previously funded researchers.