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Grants for research Projects on genetic diseases with intellectual disability

Organisme

The main target of the Fondation Jerome Lejeune, a nonprofit foundation, is research into genetic diseases with intellectual disability

Objecte

The Jerome Lejeune Foundation is the world’s oldest and largest funder of research into treatments for intellectual disabilities of genetic origin, especially, but not limited to, Down syndrome. The Foundation’s specific research interest is to discover a means to prevent and/or treat genetic intellectual disabilities in order to improve the memory, speech, and cognition of patients.

Applicants: Researchers who are developing research projects aiming at identification of treatments to improve the cognitive deficits of patients, especially those with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and other rare abnormalities such as fragile X, cri du chat, Rett, Williams-Beuren, Prader-Willi, Angelman, and other syndromes, excluding autism.
 

Termini oficial

Applications for the second funding cycle of 2014 must be received between June 16, 2014 and August 19, 2014

Date of provisional Scientific Advisory Board decision: November 2014

Board of Directors final decision: December 2014

Termini IISPV

Termini IISPV: Declaration of interest: IISPV's deadline: 06/25/2014 (europa@iispv.cat) Full proposal: IISPV's deadline: Application 08/04/2014

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