The ODC is offering 38 research opportunities focusing on 29 different rare diseases. This program provides a one-year grant to support research related to a rare disease represented in the 2020 Million Dollar Bike Ride. Number of awards and dollar amounts vary per disease based on fundraising totals by each disease team.

Research Areas for the 2020 MDBR Grant Program:

1. Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease (APBD)

2. Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T)

3. BPAN- A Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Disorder

4. CADASIL

5. Castleman Disease

6. Choroideremia

7. Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)

8. Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)

9. Charcot Maire Tooth (CMT)

10. Cohen Syndrome (COH)

11. Nonsense Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis

12. Dyskeratosis Congenita & Telomere Biology Disorder

13. Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune Albright Syndrome

14. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)

15. Generalized Lymphatic Anomaly (GLA; a.k.a. lymphangiomatosis) and Gorham-Stout Disease (GSD)

16. Glut1 Deficiency Sundrome

17. Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM)

18. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

19. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)

20. MPS Gene Spotlight: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS I)

21. Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)

22. Mitochondrial Complex 1 Deficiency Disorder - NUBPL

23. Neuroendocrine cell Hyperplasia of Infancy (NEHI)

24. Niemann Pick Type C (NPC)

25. Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS)

26. RASopathies

27. SETBP1 Disorder

28. Snyder-Robinson Syndrome (SRS)

29. STXBP1 Encephalopathy

30. TBCK Syndrome