Grants Portfolio - Active Awards

AFTD-ADDF Accelerating Drug Discovery for FTD

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TTBK1 inhibitors as new therapeutic approach for FTD and other related disorders

Ana Martinez, PhD | Ankar Pharmaceuticals 
May 2023
$185,000

Robert Willliams

Selecting lead candidate REV-ERB agonist for the treatment of FTD

Robert Williams, PhD | Pelagos Pharmaceuticals
May 2023
$214,118

Kenneth Kosik

Discovery of selective LRP1 inhibitors to prevent tau uptake and spread

Kenneth Kosik, MD  |  University of California Santa Barbara
December 2021
$300,000

Wen-Hsuan Chang, PhD

Development of PIKFYVE antisense oligonucleotides (ASO) treatment for FTD

Wen-Hsuan Chang, PhD  |  AcuraStem Inc.
May 2021
$165,000

Dieter Edbauer, MD

Preclinical efficacy study for antibody therapy in C9orf72 FTD/ALS mice

Dieter Edbauer, MD  |  German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
December 2019
$300,000

Ted Huey

Low-dose lithium for the treatment of behavioral symptoms in FTD

Edward Huey, MD  |  Brown University
2015
$532,335

AFTD-ADDF Diagnostics Accelerator

Judith Steen, PhD-01

Judith Steen, PhD  |  Harvard Medical School
September 2020
$572,678 USD

Rodney Pearlman, PhD-01

Rodney Pearlman, PhD  |  Bluefield Project to Cure FTD
October 2019
$1,200,000 USD

FTD Biomarkers Initiative

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Mapping neuroinflammation in frontotemporal lobar degeneration – development of a surrogate marker for early diagnosis and disease progression

Tammaryn Lashley, MD, PhD and Kerstin Sander MD  |  University College London
October 2022

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Accelerating tau PET imaging through head to head comparison of novel radiotracers

Tammaryn Lashley, MD, PhD and Kerstin Sander MD  |  University College London
December 2018
$247,272

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Cryo-electron microscopy of brain-derived TDP-43 filaments to rationally design PET ligands for FTD

Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD  |  Columbia University Medical Center
March 2019
$150,000

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Assessing poly(GP) proteins as clinical and pharmacodynamic biomarkers of C9ORF72-associated FTD

Leonard Petrucelli, PhD  |  Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
October 2019
$565,248

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Targeting structural alterations of TDP-43 and other proteins to develop biomarkers for FTLD subtypes

Magdalini Polymenidou, PhD  |  University of Zurich, Switzerland
September 2019
$532,122

Digital Assessment Tools for FTD and ALS

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Harmonizing remote smartphone assessments of cognition, behavior, and motor functioning across the spectrum of FTD and ALS

Adam Staffaroni |  UCSF
2023
$350,000

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Digital Measurements of Motor and Voice Functions in FTD

Ashkan Vaziri | BioSensics
2023
$399,999

Treat FTD Fund

Anne-Marie Li-Kwai-Cheung

Wave Life Sciences: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 1b/2a Study of WVE-004 Administered Intrathecally to Patients with C9orf72-associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

Anne-Marie Li-Kwai-Cheung |  Wave Life Sciences
2022
$1,190,392

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Clinical Trial of Nabilone for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Frontotemporal Dementia

Simon Ducharme, MD  |  McGill University
2021
$1,399,077

Paul Edison

Evaluating the effects of GLP-1 analog, oral semaglutide, as a treatment for sporadic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)

Paul Edison, MD  |  Imperial College London
2021
$2,000,000

Giacomo-Koch-01

Dopaminergic Therapy for Frontotemporal Dementia Patients

Giacomo Koch, PhD  |  Saint Lucia Foundation
$602,800

Emiliano Santarnecchi, PhD-01

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Gamma Induction and Cognitive Enhancement in FTD

Emiliano Santarnecchi, PhD  |  Harvard Medical School
2019
$1,959841

Pilot Grants

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PATHWAYS FOR HOPE
Aberrant protein condensation as a driver of neuroinflammation in ALS/FTD

Steven Boeynaems | Baylor College of Medicine
April 2023
$110,000

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PATHWAYS FOR HOPE
Defining the role of TBK1 loss-of-function in FTD

Daniel Mordes | UCSF
April 2023
$110,000

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WELL-BEING IN FTD
Social Network Neuromodulation in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

Alexandru Iordan | University of Michigan
April 2023
$110,000

Alinka Fisher

WELL-BEING IN FTD
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) for individuals with frontotemporal dementia: increasing service and family capacity through a mentoring and training model

Alinka Fisher, PhD  |  Finders University
April 2022
$60,000

Clinical Research Training Scholarship in FTD

Tanav Popli - Indiana University

Personalized HD-tDCS in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Tanav Popli | University of Michigan
2023
$150,000

Indira Garcia Cordero, PhD

Multimodal evidence of the role of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in corticobasal and progressive supranuclear palsy syndromes

Indira García Cordero, PhD  University of Toronto
2022
$150,000 USD ($75,000/year)
Mentor: Carmela Tartaglia

Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowships

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Targeting TDP-43 aggregation as therapeutics for ALS/FTD

Marc Shenouda | University of Toronto
July 2023
$120,000

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Virtual Reality Social Cognition Game for Preclinical Frontotemporal Dementia

Jackie Poos  | Erasmus Medical Center
July 2023
$115,000

Eric Anderson, PhD

Investigating O-glycosylation modification in C9ORF72 FTD/ALS pathogenesis

Eric Anderson, PhD  |  University of Pittsburgh
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)
Mentor: Udai Pandey, PhD

Suborno Jati, PhD

Deciphering the consequences of chromogranin A (CgA) depletion in tauopathy

Suborno Jati, PhD  |  University of California San Diego
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)
Mentor: Renzo Mancuso

Julia Faura Llorens, PhD

Long-read transcriptomics in FTLD-TDP to aid in the identification of novel biomarkers and mechanistic insights

Julia Faura Llorens, PhD  |  Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)
2022
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)
Mentor: Rosa Rademakers

Indira Garcia Cordero, PhD

Indira García Cordero, PhD  University of Toronto
2021

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Neuronal network dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease

Daniel Okobi, MD, PhD  |  University of California, Los Angeles
July 2021
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)

Hijai Regina Shin-01

Dissecting the molecular consequences of C9orf72 loss in lysosomal homeostasis and ALS-FTD disease pathogenesis

Hijai Regina Shin, PhD  |  University of California, Berkeley
July 2021
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)

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Modulating TDP-43-dependent loss of STMN2 in FTD

Matthew Nolan, PhD  |  Massachusetts General Hospital
July 2021
$120,000 USD ($60,000/year)

Ming-Yuan Su, PhD

BASIC SCIENCE
A structural approach to rescuing C9orf72 haploinsufficiency in ALS/FTD

Ming-Yuan Su, PhD  |  The Regents of the University of California
July 2019
$110,000

Oriol Dols Icardo, PhD-01

CLINICAL RESEARCH
Identification of an RNA-based biomarker for FTD

Oriol Dols Icardo, PhD  |  Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
January 2020
$110,000