Foundation for Prader-Willi Research - Research Grants

LOIs are invited for eighteen-month projects with the possibility of a second eighteen-month grant period of funding upon competitive renewal. Funding priorities identified by the foundation include genotype to phenotype: understanding PWS genetics/how loss of PWS-critical region genes leads to the phenotype; neurobiology of hunger/feeding behavior in PWS; neurobiology of cognitive deficits, maladaptive behavior, and mental illness in PWS; clinical care research: evaluation of existing drugs and interventions to improve health and quality of life in PWS; therapeutics development for PWS-genetic therapies; novel pharmaceuticals; and drug repurposing for PWS.

Letters of Intent are due by March 4, 2022.

Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by May 20, 2022.