FDA Awards $10M in Grants for Rare Disease Natural History Studies

The FDA said today it has awarded six research grants totaling more than $10 million for natural history studies in rare diseases.The $10.3 million includes $6.3 million over five years from the FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program—the first time the FDA is providing funding through the program—and $3.5 million received through a partnership with the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).The $3.5 million accounted for most of the $4 million aw