Research Grants

FARA AUSTRALIA RESEARCH FUNDING

fara Australia supports Friedreich Ataxia research projects in partnership with other Friedreich Ataxia advocacy groups around the world, particularly the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) in the United States.

In selecting the recipients of our funding, we work with the FARA US Scientific Review Committee (SRC).

Our fara Australia Board members meet formally at regular intervals to consider proposals the SRC recommends and assesses these using an explicit Impact Scoring criterion. fara also gives special consideration to local Australian research that meets scoring benchmarks.

All of our funded research projects focus on addressing and advancing these nine strategic Friedreich Ataxia research areas.

  • Gene and Stem Cell therapy

  • Cardiac Research

  • Mechanism or Pathway of Disease

  • Improving Clinical Outcomes

  • Drug Discovery

  • Lead Candidates

  • Cell and Animal Models

  • Outcome Measures and Biomarkers

  • Natural History and Biorepository

RECENTLY FUNDED RESEARCH

fara co-funded four new Research Programs & extended three other grants into their second years in 2022/2023.

This investment of funds contributed by our community totalled $245,000 and extended from Monash University and the University of Wollongong to the University of Rochester in New York, the University of Florida and CNRS-CEA-Université Paris-Saclay in France.

This takes fara supported research grants to more than $1,000,000 over the last five years thanks to the amazing generosity of our community!

Our thanks and gratitude to every contributor and supporter of fara who have made this investment possible. Your kindness is progressing the search for treatments and one day a cure for Friedreich Ataxia.

Click on the links below to review our currently funded research programs.

To be considered for co-funding by fara Australia, please submit your grant application according to the instructions on the FARA US website http://www.curefa.org/grant.  All submitted applications are assessed by the FARA US Scientific Review Committee.

fara Australia does not accept research grant applications directly.