Funding

What Funding is required and where are the funds being applied?

Initial Funding required:

An average research project requires circa £150,000 of funding per year (average length of project is 3 years). We are aiming to fund at least 2 or 3 such projects over the next 3 years.

Our initial Funding target is £1 million (minimum) over the next 3 years.

Funds are currently being applied to the following:

	Project Name	Research Type	Brief Description	Organisation performing the research	Location	Proposed Project Time-line
1	MDEX - Exon Skipping	Gene Therapy	Exon Skipping project, focusing on out-of-frame Duplications	Imperial College London (in conjunction with QEII Medical Centre)	London, UK and Perth, Australia	3 years
2	ZF Partnership Programme (see more)	Drug Therapy	Utrophin upregulation, Drug Discovery Programme	Summit Plc (formerly VASTox Plc)	Oxford, UK	3-5 years
3	Ongoing Management of DMD - Funding ongoing

Project Name

Research Type

Brief Description

Organisation performing the research

Location

Proposed Project
Time-line

MDEX -
Exon
Skipping

Gene
Therapy

Exon Skipping
project,
focusing on
out-of-frame
Duplications

Imperial
College
London
(in conjunction
with QEII
Medical Centre)

London, UK
and Perth,
Australia

3 years

ZF
Partnership
Programme

(see more)

Drug Therapy

Utrophin
upregulation,
Drug Discovery
Programme

Summit Plc
(formerly
VASTox Plc)

Oxford, UK

3-5 years

Ongoing Management of DMD - Funding ongoing