Convocatoria para la financiación de proyectos de investigación tralacional sobre la progeria y sus trastornos relacionados, dirigidos al desarrollo de una cura o tratamiento contra esta enfermedad.

Los proyectos presentados deberán abordar alguna de las siguientes prioridades de investigación:

• Projects that are likely to lead to clinical treatment trials within 5 years. This includes the discovery and/or testing of candidate treatment compounds in cell-based or animal models of HGPS. Only proposals that test compounds in a progerin-producing animal or cell model will normally be considered. Analyses in non progerin-producing models are acceptable, but only as a comparison to progerin-producing models and with strong justification.
• Development of gene-, biomolecule-, drug-, and cell-based therapies to treat Progeria.
• Assessment of natural history of disease that may be important to developing outcome measures in treatment trials (preclinical or clinical).