Fondation Maladies Rares: Wolfram Syndrome

Funding is available to researchers worldwide for biomedical projects on Wolfram syndrome. 

Fondation Maladies Rares (Foundation for Rare Diseases) is a non-profit umbrella organisation created in 2012 within the framework of France’s second National Rare Diseases Plan. Its two main objectives are to understand rare diseases to facilitate their diagnosis and to accelerate the development of new treatments and to improve the lives of people with rare diseases and their families. Its overall mission is to promote, coordinate and support research on rare diseases to alleviate the social and therapeutic isolation of individuals afflicted with rare diseases and thus improve their daily lives.

In collaboration with the Association du Syndrome de Wolfram (Wolfram Syndrome Association), Fondation Maladies Rares has published a call for proposals to support research into Wolfram syndrome, a rare, genetic endocrine disorder characterised by type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), diabetes insipidus (DI), sensorineural deafness (D), bilateral optical atrophy (OA) and neurological signs. The call aims to support innovative basic, translational or clinical research programmes into the rare disease. All biomedical disciplines are eligible.

The call hopes to support any research aimed at the pathophysiological understanding of the disease, the improvement of diagnosis, the development of better management modalities and/or the development of therapeutic strategies.