Progeria Research Grants

The Progeria Research Foundation awards grants to applicants who seek to conduct research to find the cause, treatment, or cure for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (Progeria, or HGPS).

Topics must fall within any of the following research priorities:

• Projects that are likely to lead to clinical treatment trials within 5 years. 

• Development of gene- and cell-based therapies to treat Progeria

• Assessment of natural history of disease that may be important to developing outcome measures in treatment trials (preclinical or clinical)

Funding: $75,000 per year 

Duration: 2 years 

Research Authority due date: 26.12.19

LOI (required) due date:  2.1.20

Full proposal dua date: 1.4.20