Association for
Frontotemporal
Degeneration (AFTD)
The Association for Frontotemporal Dementia (AFTD) is the leading national non-profit working to help families facing FTD. As an organization, AFTD envisions a world with compassionate care, effective support, and a future free of FTD.
All event proceeds will go to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, a 501(c)(3)
Every day AFTD works to advance:
AFTD is the leading national non-profit working to help families facing FTD.
Support from donors provides the AFTD with the ability to sustain and accelerate their mission – to improve the quality of life of people affected by FTD and drive research to a cure.
All Donations from the Hope in Color benefit will increase the funding available for the AFTD’s primary research initiatives and awards. In 2021, the following awards and grants were funded:
Awards & Grants | 2021
Basic Science
Pilot Grant
Maria Catarina Silva, PhD,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Accelerating Drug
Discovery for FTD
Wen-Hsuan Change, PhD, AcuraStem Incorporated;
Anna Orr, PhD, Cornell University
Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowships
Well-Being in FTD
Pilot Grant
Allison Lindauer, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University
Diagnostic
Accelerator
Wesley Horton, MS / Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
FTD Insights
Fellowship
Megan Barker, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center
