Since 2003, the Cystinosis Research Foundation has raised and committed more than $71 million for cystinosis research, making the CRF the largest provider of grants for cystinosis research in the world. Our dedicated researchers and scientists are working in 13 countries around the world to find better treatments and a cure for cystinosis.
*Many of the researchers listed in the sections below were awarded multiple grants in their field. Rather than list their name multiple times, we chose to just list them once.
Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: Bone Marrow Stem Cells, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Gene Therapy and Gene Editing
35 Grants
*Many of the researchers listed below were awarded multiple grants in their field. Rather than list their name multiple times, we chose to just list them once.
Cystine Measurement and Cysteamine Toxicity - 10 Grants
Bruce Barshop, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Shawn Davidson, PhD
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Thomas Jeitner, PhD
New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
Cellular and/or Molecular Studies of the Pathogenesis of Cystinosis - 68 Grants
Corinne Antignac, MD, PhD
Imagine Institute (Inserm U1163), Paris, France
Lauren Albrecht, BS, PhD
Renata Pereira, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Francesco Bellomo, PhD
Francesco Emma, MD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Sergio Catz, PhD
Raquel Carvalho Gontijo, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
Danni Chen, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
Farhana Rahman, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
Apama Shukla, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
Nadia Zgajnar, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
Juan Yu, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Ester De Leo, PhD
Francesco Emma, MD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Antonella De Matteis, MD
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
Zhiyong Chen, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
Alessandro Luciani, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Liang Feng, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Liang Feng, PhD
Xue Guo, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Bruno Gasnier, PhD
Yann Terras, MSc
CNRS/Université de Paris, Paris, France
Taosheng Huang, MD, PhD
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
Ming Li, PhD
Jacob Kitzman, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Alessandro Luciani, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Gennaro Napolitano, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Giusi Prencipe, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Matias Simons, MD
Zvonimir Marelja, PhD
Imagine Institute, Paris, France
Jess Thoene, MD
Tulane University
School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
Bruno Vogt, MD
Daniel Pouly, PhD
University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: Bone Marrow Stem Cells, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Gene Therapy and Gene Editing - 35 Grants
Stéphanie Cherqui, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Alan Davidson, PhD
The University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
Bruno Gasnier, PhD
Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
Paul Goodyer, MD
Montréal Children’s Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Patrick Harrison, PhD
University College cork, cork, Ireland
Vasiliki Kalatzis, PhD
Institute of Molecular
Genetics of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Winston Kao, PhD
Hassane Amlal, PhD
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Daniel Salomon, MD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Holger Willenbring, MD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
New Drug Discovery Cysteamine, New Medications and Devices - 32 Grants
Ghanashyam Acharya, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Francesco Bellomo, PhD
Francesco Emma, MD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Pierre Courtoy, MD, PhD
Christophe Pierreux, PhD
de Duve Institute, Louvain University Medical School,Brussels, Belgium
Laura Rita Rega, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Antonella De Matteis, MD
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy
Ranjan Dohil, MD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Francesco Emma, MD
Laura Rita Rega, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Paul Goodyer, MD
Montréal Children’s Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Paul Goodyer, MD
Elena Torban, PhD
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre,Montréal, Québec, Canada
Jennifer Hollywood, PhD
Alan Davidson, PhD
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Michael Sekar, PhD
Amma Therapeutics, Inc., Hayward, California
Laura Rita Rega, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Vincent Stanton, Jr., MD
Patrice Rioux, MD, PhD
Thiogenesis Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California
Neurological - 17 Grants
Angela Ballantyne, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Miriam Britt Sach, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Rita Ceponiene, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Florian Eichler, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Pascal Laforêt, MD, PhD
Hélène Prigent, MD, PhD
Raymond Poincaré University Hospital, Garches, France
Sophie Molholm, PhD
John Foxe, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Aude Servais, MD, PhD
Necker Hospital, Paris, France
Amy Spilkin, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Doris Trauner, MD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Eye-Corneal Cystinosis Research - 11 Grants
Ghanashyam Acharya, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Stéphanie Cherqui, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Morgan DiLeo, PhD
Xin Fan, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Morgan Fedorchak, PhD
Kanwal Nischal, MD, FRCO
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jennifer Simpson, MD
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Kang Zhang, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Kidney Research - 28 Grants
Yael Borovitz, MD, Ittai Fattal, MD, Shelly Levi, MD,
and Daniel Landau, MD
Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel
Robert Chevalier, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Pierre Courtoy, MD, PhD
Christophe Pierreux, PhD
de Duve Institute, Louvain University Medical School, Brussels, Belgium
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
University of Zürich, Institute of Physiology, Zürich, Switzerland
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
Marine Berquez, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
Alessandro Luciani, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Allison Eddy, MD
BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Francesco Emma, MD
Anna Taranta, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Benjamin Freedman, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
Robert Mak, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Tara McMorrow, MD
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Philip Newsholme, PhD
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Daryl Okamura, MD
Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Laura Rita Rega, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Mary Taub, PhD
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York
Thyroid - 1 Grant
Pierre Courtoy, MD, PhD
de Duve Institute, Louvain University Medical School, Brussels, Belgium
Skin, Muscle and Bone - 21 Grants
Justine Bacchetta, MD, PhD
Irma Machuca-Gayet, PhD
Hospices Civils de Lyon Université de Lyon, lyon, France
Robert Ballotti, PhD
Christine Chiaverini, MD, PhD
Faculté de Medecine, Nice, France
Andrea Del Fattore, PhD
Giulia Battafarano, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Paul Grimm, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
Dieter Haffner, MD
Malgorzata Szaroszyk, PhD
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Maren Leifheit-Nestler, PhD
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
Robert Mak, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Richard Reimer, MD
Jacinda Sampson, MD, PhD
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Paul Grimm, MD
Trinh Tina Duong, MPT
Feliks Kogan, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Reza Seyedsadjadi, MD
Florian Eichler, MD
Lee Rubin, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Molecular Study of Cystinosis in the Yeast Model - 3 Grants
Bruno André, PhD
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
Anand Bachhawat, PhD
Iiser Mohali, Manauli, Punjab, India
David Pearce, PhD
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Genetic Analysis of Cystinosis - 5 Grants
Katy Freed, PhD
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Sihoun Hahn, MD, PhD
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington
Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
Eric Moses, PhD
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cure Cystinosis International Registry (CCIR) - 1 Grant
Ranjan Dohil, MD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Rat Model for Cystinosis - 4 Grants
Francesco Emma, MD
Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Olivier Devuyst, MD, PhD
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Lab Equipment for Cystinosis - 9 Grants
Ghanashyam Acharya, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Corinne Antignac, MD, PhD
Imagine Institute, Paris, France
Bruce Barshop, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Sergio Catz, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Stéphanie Cherqui, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
