Jerome Lejeune Foundation Grants Program

Jerome Lejeune Foundation Grants Program The Jerome Lejeune Foundation is the world’s oldest and largest private funder of research into treatments for intellectual disabilities of genetic origin, especially, but not limited to, Down syndrome. The Foundation’s specific research interest is to discover a means of  treating genetic intellectual disabilities in order to improve the memory, speech, and cognition of patients. Researchers who are working in basic or applied science and who have genetic intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Cri-du-Chat syndrome, rare chromosomal anomalies, Rett syndrome, Williams Beuren, Willi Prader, Angelman…) as their therapeutic target  are invited to submit proposals for funding assistance from the Foundation. The Jerome Lejeune Foundation will consider all proposals which have as their goal advancing scientific knowledge which leads to the discovery of treatments to improve the intellectual capacities of those affected by genetic illness. The Foundation provides no funding for research into autism. Therapeutically oriented projects will be given priority and may receive consideration for larger grants. Funding for research congresses and teaching programs may also be considered. The Jerome Lejeune Foundation is an international grant making foundation. Requests for funding must, therefore, be considered in a common currency, or in this case, the euro. Researchers outside of t...
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