#SCHOOL HAMEDOL PROJECT HD FULL#
Access to the full application will be extended to those whose LOIs met project guidelines. The deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the 2020 Human Biology Project has passed. Applications from for-profit institutions are welcome.Innovative ideas from non-scientists will also be accepted and encouraged.Preference given to young postdoctoral and clinical investigators (PhD and/or MDs) who are not yet independent.Open to researchers from around the world regardless of position/title.Recipient must commit at least 50% effort to the project.Awards up to $75,000/year ($50,000 salary support and $25,000 research budget).1-2 years of funding to support a scientist working collaboratively with an HD clinic anywhere in the world.HDSA encourages researchers to consider one of HDSA’s 54 Centers of Excellence as a potential collaborator, but applicants may propose to work with any HD clinic around the world. The Human Biology Project was launched in 2013 with the goal of fostering innovative research in collaboration with HD clinics to better understand the biology of Huntington’s disease as it occurs in humans. To date, HDSA has committed over $5 million dollars to support this program.
The HD Human Biology Project is the cornerstone of this strategy. As a result, the Huntington’s Disease Society of America has adopted a patient-centric research strategy to push the field closer to meeting our goal of identifying effective therapies. Although animal models have been instrumental to our understanding of HD biology, the most physiologically relevant scientific observations are those that are recorded in HD patients.
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