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-, biomolecule-, drug-, 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: 26.6.23,  27.12.23

LOI (required) due date: 3.7.23. 3.1.24

Full proposal due date: 2.10.23, 3.4.24