Klarman Family Foundation: Grants Program in Eating Disorders Research

Translational research in developing effective treatments for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Funding areas include but are not limited to molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; epigenetic research; animal models created by genetically altering neural circuits; and testing of new chemical entities that might be used in animal models as exploratory treatments. Imaging studies will NOT be accepted in the 2011 grant cycle. Clinical psychotherapeutic studies, medication trials and research in the medical complications of these disorders are outside the scope of this Program. Funding: Two-year awards of $400K and one-year pilot studies of up to $150K are made to investigators in the US, Canada or Israel.