2014 Research awards given, totaling $430,000
The Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation is committed to directly funding the most promising research available in the world to help find a treatment and ultimately a cure for Pitt Hopkins syndrome.
Fall 2014: The PHRF awarded four research grants and two additional research grants through UPenn Million Dollar Bike Ride. A total of $430,000 awarded for Pitt Hopkins research this year.
PHRF Awards:
Dr. Andrew Kennedy, University of Alabama Birmingham
$80,000; one year grant: Investigating therapies for Pitt Hopkins syndrome
Dr. Stephen J. Haggarty, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
$80,000; one year grant: Characterization of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome stem cell models & therapeutic screening (stem cells created from skin-derived fibroblasts of patients with Pitt Hopkins syndrome)
Dr. Hazel L. Sive, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$80,000; one year grant: Characterization and therapeutic screening of Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome using the Zebrafish
Dr. Brady Maher, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
$80,000; one year grant: Exploring changes in neuronal translatomes in both cell- and non-cell autonomous animal models of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome
UPenn Million Dollar Bike Ride awards:
Dr. Courtney Thaxton, and Dr. Benjamin D. Philpot, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$55,000; one year grant: Identification of genetic and molecular targets for Pitt-Hopkins Therapeutics
Dr. Daniel Marenda, Drexel University, and Dr. Wenhui Hu, Temple University School of Medicine
$55,000; one year grant: Understanding TCF4 function in post-mitotic neuron synaptic plasticity
