$250,000 NIH Grant

MITCHELL SYNDROME RESEARCHERS RECEIVE $250,000 NIH GRANT

We are thrilled to announce that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded The Miller Lab at Washington University in St. Louis a $250,000 grant to continue its research into Mitchell Syndrome.

The grant application was made by Dr. Zita Hubler, lead researcher into Mitchell Syndrome. This NIH funding will be available for two years, and is being earmarked to hire a full-time technician who will assist in testing therapeutic treatments on cells that have been manipulated to have the same genetic changes as those with Mitchell Syndrome. This research is critical in identifying possible treatments for people with this ultra-rare neurological disease.

The NIH grant process is highly selective. According to Dr. Hubler, applications are evaluated on the project's potential impact or importance, the rigor of the experimental design, and the feasibility of the proposed experiments based on preliminary data. Feedback from the NIH review team indicates that WashU’s grant application scored very high against these criteria.

The Mitchell and Friends Foundation is honored to have such a talented team of researchers investigating the causes and treatments of Mitchell Syndrome. We are excited to see research move forward as we all work for a cure.

Together, we can defeat the rarest of rare diseases.

(See the diagram, below, for an example of the research being conducted. Image shared with permission.)

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