HDF Transformative Research Award
Funds high-impact collaborative Huntington disease teams tackling complex mechanisms and novel therapeutic strategies with advanced team science.
The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) Transformative Research Award is the foundation's largest grant instrument, designed for multi-investigator collaborative teams pursuing exceptional, high-risk research into Huntington's disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies. HDF, founded in 1968 and based in New York, established the program to fund work that would be ineligible for incremental gran…
Transformational Huntington's disease research with exceptional novelty, prioritising somatic repeat instability, cellular and biochemical disease predictors, and disease-modifying therapeutic strategies.
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