DMRF Canada has been working with the Banting Research Foundation to support their Discovery Award Program since 2017.
This award is offered annually, and is a one-year grant of up to $25,000 per year that will support research related to the causes, mechanisms, prevention, and treatments which could potentially enable medical breakthroughs and transformative health care advances to find a cure for dystonia. Eligible applicants must be in the first three years of an academic appointment at a university or research institute in Canada.
For complete guidelines and application instructions, click here.
Eligible candidates must be focused on research that will address one or more of the core directions necessary to advance the field of dystonia. These core directions include furthering our fundamental understanding of dystonia, uncovering the mechanisms in the nervous system that lead to symptoms, creating experimental models of dystonia, and discovering targets for new and improved therapeutics designed specifically to treat dystonia. This includes hypothesis-driven research projects at the genetic, molecular, cellular, systems, or behavioral levels that may lead to a better understanding of the pathophysiology or to new therapies for any or all forms of dystonia.
Learn About Our Discovery Award Grant Recipients:
June 2018 - Nomazulu Dlamini, MD PhD. Neurology, from the Hospital for Sick Children.
August 2019 - Nicholas Strzalkowski, PhD. Department of Biology at Mount Royal University.