CACNA1A Foundation
Research Grant Recipients
The CACNA1A Foundation’s mission is focused on funding research to find new treatments and a cure for CACNA1A-related disorders. Our research grant program provides seed grants to academic scientists for translational research, clinical studies, and infrastructure to support the development of potential new treatments for patients with CACNA1A.
We thank all of our generous donors for making these grants possible.
We could not do it without you!
Development of a Novel Viral Vector Gene Therapy Approach to treat CACNA1A Cerebellar Disorders
Samuel M. Young Jr., PhD
$73,731 Grant |Awarded January 2024 by the Orphan Disease Center/Million Dollar Bike Ride in collaboration with the CACNA1A Foundation
Development of an in vitro compound screening assay utilizing an electrophysiological fingerprint in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons carrying a CACNA1A gain-of-function variant
Bart van de Warrenburg, MD, PhD + Marina Hommersom, PhD candidate
$50,000 Grant | Awarded September 2023
Fixing CaV2.1 functional expression to treat CACNA1A disorders
Henry M. Colecraft, PhD
$75,000 Grant | Awarded June 2023
Development of novel gene therapy strategies to treat CACNA1A disorders
Samuel M. Young Jr., PhD
$50,000 Grant | Awarded March 2023
CACNA1A Portal that enables global aggregation of clinical, genetic, and molecular data for CACNA1A genetic variants
Dennis Lal, PhD
$55,000 Grant | Awarded March 2022