2024

Rare diseases Chemical Therapeutics Program

(2024-2027)

“Affordable Generic Antisense Oligonucleotides Chemistry based therapeutics targeted towards Spinal Muscular Atrophy”

Extramural Small Grant (2024-2027)

“Development of biocompatible nanotechnology based non viral delivery vehicle for micro dystrophin gene delivery as therapeutics for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”

In Collaboration with Dr. Meenal Kowshik and Prof. Indrani Talukdar from BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus 

2020

Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRHPA) Grant (2020-2025)

“Multimodal Approaches to Develop Potential Therapeutic Leads Targeting Molecular Hot Spots of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for Clinical Trial”

In Collaboration with Prof. Surajit Ghosh, IIT-Jodhpur & Dr. Kuldeep Singh, AIIMS-Jodhpur

2019

National Registry Project (2019-2024)

“National Registry for Rare and Other Inherited Disorders”

DART was selected as an awardee of ALERT Being Awards 2019 under ‘Organisation – Trust‘ Category.

2018

Research Grant (2018-2019)

“Evaluation of Safety of Antisense Oligonucleotide based multiple exon skipping in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient with frameshift mutation”

2017

BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) Challenge (2017-2018)

DART was selected as a winner of 2017-2018 BeHEARD Rare Disease Competition Technology Prizes.

2016

Strategies to Realize Innovation, Vision, and Empowerment (STRIVE) for DMD Award (2016-2019)

DART was recognized to receive the 2016 STRIVE Award for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

SGRF Genome Project Grant Winner 2016

DART was selected as 2016 SGRF Genome Project Grant Winner among the top based on review and ranking by the scientific review committee of Scigenom Research Foundation