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Kestrel Investigators

Five laboratories in the United States and Germany, each working on a different part of the same question: what causes neurodegenerative diseases, and where can we intervene?

  • J. Wade Harper J. Wade Harper, PhD Professor of Molecular Pathology and Cell Biology
    Harvard Medical School
    Boston
  • Florian Wilfling Florian Wilfling, PhD Research Group Leader
    Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
    Frankfurt
  • Tobias Walther Tobias Walther, PhD Professor, Cell Biology Program
    Memorial Sloan Kettering & Weill Cornell
    New York
  • Eric J. Huang Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD Professor of Pathology and Immunology
    Washington University in St. Louis
    St. Louis
  • Joachim Herz Joachim Herz, MD Professor of Molecular Genetics
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Dallas

Our model

How Kestrel funds research

Kestrel supports a standing group of investigators rather than a rotating set of single grants. Investigators share data, methods and early results with each other and with our Scientific Advisory Board, so a finding in one laboratory can be tested in another quickly.

Our funding concentrates on the early stages of drug discovery: finding causes, explaining mechanisms and validating therapeutic targets.

Research proposals Kestrel is not currently reviewing unsolicited research proposals. Please check this page for updates.

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News on Kestrel research, investigators and events, a few times a year.