Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program

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Grant Name

Funder

Orphan Disease Center (ODC)

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Country or Region

United States

Research Field

Blindness

Cystic Fibrosis

Genetic Disorders

Movement Disorders

Muscular Dystrophy

Mutation

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Orphan Rare Diseases

Respiratory Diseases

Deadline

September 18, 2021 (Expired)

Grant Size

38 research opportunities available. This program provides a one-year grant.Number of awards and dollar amounts vary per disease based on fundraising totals by each disease team.

Contact Info

Samantha Charleston scharle@upenn.edu

Eligibility

All individuals holding a faculty level appointment at an academic institution or a senior scientific position at a non-profit institution or foundation are eligible to respond to this RFA.

Description

Research Areas for the 2020 MDBR Grant Program:
- Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease (APBD)
- Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T)
- BPAN
- A Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Disorder
- CADASIL
- Castleman Disease
- Choroideremia
- Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)
- Charcot Maire Tooth (CMT)
- Cohen Syndrome (COH)
- Nonsense Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis
- Dyskeratosis Congenita & Telomere Biology Disorder
- Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune Albright Syndrome
- Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
- Generalized Lymphatic Anomaly (GLA; a.k.a. lymphangiomatosis) and Gorham-Stout Disease (GSD)
- Glut1 Deficiency Sundrome
- Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM)
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
- Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)
- MPS Gene Spotlight: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS I)
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)
- Mitochondrial Complex 1 Deficiency Disorder - NUBPL
- Neuroendocrine cell Hyperplasia of Infancy (NEHI)
- Niemann Pick Type C (NPC)
- Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS)
- RASopathies
- SETBP1 Disorder
- Snyder-Robinson Syndrome (SRS)
- STXBP1 Encephalopathy
- TBCK Syndrome Eligibility All individuals holding a faculty level appointment at an academic institution or a senior scientific position at a non-profit institution or foundation are eligible to respond to this RFA.

Website

https://orphandiseasecenter.med.upenn.edu/grant-opportunities

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link