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Current funding:

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NIH 1RF1AG069076
PI: Kartik Venkatachalam

"NEUROPATHOLOGY IN TAUOPATHIES STEM FROM DEPOLARIZATION-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN THE PLANAR DISTRIBUTION OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDES"
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020-AUGUST 31, 2024
NIH 5R21AG061646
PIs: Kartik Venkatachalam and Marco Sardiello
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"MODULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION AND PROLIFERATION IN DROSOPHILA NEURONS"
JULY 1, 2018-JUNE 30, 2021
NIH 1R21AG067414
PI: Kartik Venkatachalam
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"INVOLVEMENT OF AN ER TO LYSOSOME SIGNALING AXIS IN THE ONSET OF NEURODEGENERATION IN MODELS OF AD"
MAY 15, 2020-APRIL 30, 2022

Past Funding:

Research Grant, 2019 Starter award, ALS association (co-PI with Dr. Jeffrey Frost)                   
"Role of the extracellular matrix in C9-ALS"
09/01/2019-08/31/2020

NIH R01, NS081301, PI: Kartik Venkatachalam
"ALTERATIONS IN SYNAPTIC GROWTH AND LIPID-RAFT ORGANIZATION IN A FLY MLIV MODEL"
February 1, 2014-January 31, 2019

Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center Research Grant, MDBR-18-132-RAS, PI: Kartik Venkatachalam 
"Targeting Endolysosomal Proteins to Treat RASopathies"
January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018 P

NIH R21, NS094860, PIs: Kartik Venkatachalam and Kirill Kiselyov
"GDAP1-MEDIATED CELLULAR DAMAGE IN MLIV"
July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018

Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center Research Grant, MDBR-15-104-ML4 , PI: Kartik Venkatachalam 
"Mechanisms of Neurodevelopmental Defects in a Lysosomal Storage Disease"
​May 1, 2016-December 31, 2017

The Homejoy Foundation kindly provided us with a gift to undertake ALS-related research