2023 CDKL5 Pilot Grant Programme

The Loulou Foundation is pleased to announce the Awardees for the 2023 CDKL5 Pilot Grant Programme.  Now in its eight year, the CDKL5 Pilot Grant Programme is directed by the Loulou Foundation through its collaboration with the CDKL5 Program of Excellence at the Orphan Disease Center of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. 

The goal of the Programme is to advance basic and translational research on CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder affecting thousands of patients across the world.  Again this year, the one-year research proposals submitted by these Pilot Grant Awardees cover a range of topics, from the basic biology of CDKL5 to translational and clinical development of therapeutics for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder.

We thank all applicants to this year’s grant program for providing a high quality and competitive pool of research projects, and also thank the more than twenty scientists who served as peer reviewers for this year’s grant cycle, giving generously of their time and expertise to carefully evaluate all invited applications.