The ODC is offering 42 research opportunities focusing on 29 different rare diseases. This program provides a one-year grant to support research related to a rare disease represented in the 2021 Million Dollar Bike Ride. Number of awards and dollar amounts vary per disease based on fundraising totals by each disease team.

Full Applications are Due Monday, October 18, 2021 by 8pm EST, by invitation only.

To Apply:

1. Please review the Request for Applications (RFA)

2. Complete Cover Page to be uploaded with full application

3. Complete Budget Form to be uploaded with full application

4. Complete the Application Form on Submittable.
   

The MDBR 2021 Pilot Grants are open to the international community holding a faculty‐level appointment at an academic institution or a senior scientific position at a non-profit institution or foundation

Research Areas for the 2021 MDBR Grant Program:

1. Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease (APBD)

2. Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T)

3. BPAN- A Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Disorder

4. CADASIL

5. Castleman Disease

6. CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder

7. Choroideremia (CHM)

8. Complex Lymphatic Anomalies (CLA)

9. Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)

10. Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)

11. Cohen Syndrome (COH)

12. Nonsense Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis

13. Dyskeratosis Congenita & Telomere Biology Disorder

14. Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune Albright Syndrome

15. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)

16. Glut1 Deficiency Sundrome

17. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

18. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)

19. MPS Gene Spotlight: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS I)

20. Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)

21. Mitochondrial Complex 1 Deficiency Disorder - NUBPL

22. Mucolipidosis Type IV (ML4)

23. Neuroendocrine cell Hyperplasia of Infancy (NEHI)

24. Niemann Pick Type C (NPC)

25. Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS)

26. RASopathies

27. SETBP1 Disorder

28. Snyder-Robinson Syndrome (SRS)

29. STXBP1 Encephalopathy

30. TBCK Syndrome