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Announcing the Recipient of the 2024 Leslie Gehry Prize for Innovation in Science
Announcing the 2024 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize Recipient: Dr. Rachel Harding
2024 Hereditary Disease Foundation Funded Researchers
Funding Brilliant Science The Hereditary Disease Foundation is excited to announce new grants and postdoctoral fellowships to eleven scientists from around the world focused on finding treatments and cures for Huntington’s disease. We’ll bring you more details about their research projects in the months ahead. Funded Recipients, Institutions, and Project Titles: Swati Balakrishnan, PhDMentor: Cheryl Arrowsmith, PhD; Rachel Harding, PhDInstitution: University of Toronto, CanadaProject Title: Investigating the role of a protein variant in damage to genetic material Gabriel Balmus, PhDInstitution: University of Cambridge, United KingdomProject Title: Discovery of therapeutic targets that can ameliorate Huntington’s disease Bogdan Bintu, PhDInstitution: University of California, San DiegoProject Title: Imaging the drivers of toxicity in single cells
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Wendy Paris of Inside Philanthropy captures the essence of the history of the Hereditary Disease Foundation
2023 Gehry and Wexler Prize Winners Announced
2023 HDF Transformative Research Awards Announced
HDF Announces Erica Matisz as Director of Development
2023 Hereditary Disease Foundation Funded Researchers
Transformative Research Awards Launched
The Hereditary Disease Foundation is thrilled to launch today, on Rare Disease Day, a new initiative that takes us to the next level in funding the most exciting and promising Huntington’s disease research worldwide. The HDF Transformative Research Award program will make funds available to advance transformational collaborative projects that will provide new insights into disease mechanisms or create or implement technologies not previously applied to Huntington’s disease research for the advancement of therapeutics. Made possible through the extraordinary vision of several of our generous donors, the Transformative Research Award program is intended to push the envelope and stimulate revolutionary
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