[ Jain Foundation - Research funding on dysferlinopathies | Research funding ]

The Jain Foundation is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to cure muscular dystrophies caused by dysferlin protein deficiency, which includes the clinical presentations Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B (LGMD2B) and Miyoshi muscular dystrophy 1 (MMD1).

The Jain Foundation funds research to expedite development of a treatment or cure for the dysferlinopathies (LGMD2B and Miyoshi Myopathy). Your proposed project MUST have application to these diseases, or it will not be considered.

Funding: no upper or lower limit. Eligible costs: personnel, materials, and all other direct costs.

Rolling call
Decision: within 4-6 weeks.

For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, currently funded projects, the composition of the foundation’s advisory board.