Our Grants
Our founders cover all organizational overhead, so 100% of your donation goes to grants. This page is where all your donations go: we find labs where the PI has knowledge of SynGAP and/or key skills that will be essential for our quest for a therapy for our patients and we support those labs.
The Syngap Research Fund is eager to provide high-impact research grants to interested physicians and researchers worldwide to accelerate diagnosis and management of SynGAP1 syndrome.
Please complete SRF’s grant application if you are interested in applying for funding to conduct SynGAP1 research.
Note: SRF has a Board-directed policy that does not allow for the payment of indirect costs to nonprofit institutions.
DR. HOLDER
Read MorePurpose: Develop and characterize iPSC lines to support grant 19/2.
Funding: $130,000 over three years to support some of the training of a postdoctoral researcher.
Key people: Jimmy Lloyd Holder Jr, MD, PhD & Ridhima Vij Ph.D.
Status: Approved, Signed, 67% disbursed.
DR. RUMBAUGH
Read MorePurpose: To test the hypothesis that the pathogenicity of distinct SYNGAP1 variants found in patients will correlate with the extent of dysfunction in neurons derived from their own cells.
Funding: $205,500 over three years to support the training of a postdoctoral researcher.
Key people: Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D. & Nerea Llamosas PhD
Status: Approved, Signed, 67% disbursed.
DR. HUGANIR
Read MorePurpose: Research on SynGAP animal models & to explore naturally occuring ASOs that relate to SynGAP.
Funding: $500,000 over two years to support the training of two postdoctoral researchers and the related supplies.
Key people: Richard Huganir, PhD
Status: Grant agreement under discussion; 50% disbursed.
PRECISION MEDICINE CONFERENCE
Read MorePurpose: Support the 2019 Precision Medicine for Epilepsy Conference
Funding: $10,000 to UCSF for conference support.
Key people: Daniel Lowenstein, MD
Status: 100% disbursed.
SYNGAP ORGANOID RESEARCH
Read MorePurpose: Support the purchase of a Willow MEA to enhance research into SynGAP organoids.
Funding: $46,500 to USC to purchase a Willow.
Key people: Marcelo Pablo Coba, PhD & Giorgia Quadrato, PhD
Status: 100% disbursed.
SYNGAP EPIGENETICS
Read MorePurpose: Develop a rich body of knowledge around the epigenetics of SYNGAP1.
Funding: $130,000 to Penn Epigenetics Center.
Key people: Elizabeth Heller, PhD & Post-doc to be determined.
Status: Agreement signed, 0% disbursed.
.svg)
.jpeg)
