TSC Alliance Innovation Workshop Grant: Newborn Screening Assay Development

The ultimate goal of the TSC Alliance’s newborn screening efforts is to identify and develop a newborn screening assay for TSC suitable for inclusion in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP) for NBS5.

Applications must address one of the two recommendations from the Innovation Workshop: 

1. Research (e.g., metabolomics or proteomics) to identify a biomarker or a panel of biomarkers which may be unique for TSC in dried blood spots from infants.
2. Research to develop and test the viability of an assay to detect a 50% decrease of hamartin or tuberin in blood of infants with TSC.

funding: $150,000 

duration: 1 year

research authority deadline: 15.8.21

LOI (required) due date: 23.8.21

Full proposal due date: 13.9.21