Previous Grant Recipients
With the support of our SDS families and generous supporters, Shwachman Diamond Syndrome Foundation has funded the following projects in the United States and other countries. SDS is a very rare disease, we are grateful to those researchers who are willing to give their time and expertise to help those living with SDS. If you are a researcher interested in submitting a grant request, please email info@shwachman-diamond.org.
| Year | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| 2020 | Garry Tobin, MD | Diabetes Study |
| 2016 | Marc Raaijmakers,MD, PhD Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands | “Reconstructing” Leukemogenesis in Shwachman Diamond Syndrome |
| 2016 | Seth Corey, MD | Identification of Cooperating Genes in the Transformation of SDS to MDS/ AML in the Zebrafish Model that Phenocopies Human SDS |
| 2015 | Seth Corey, MD | Identification of Cooperating Genes in the Transformation of SDS to MDS/ AML in the Zebrafish Model that Phenocopies Human SDS |
| 2015 | Allison Bertuch, MD, PhD | Why are Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Cells Hypersensitive to y-irradiation? |
| 2014 | Johnson Liu, MD | SBDS Gene Expression Levels and Hematopoietic Defect in Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome: Groundwork and Application for Gene Therapy |
| 2011 | Paul de Figueiredo, PhD and Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD | Drug screen to show that HDAC (histone deacetylase) inhibitors will improve growth of Sdo1 deficient yeast cells |
| 2010 | Paul de Figueiredo, PhD | Small molecule therapeutic approaches to SDS |
| 2008 | Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | North American Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Registry |
| 2008 | Nicholas Trede, MD University of Utah | Genetic analysis of Ceylon, a Zebrafish mutant with a genetically heritable SDS-like birth defect |
| 2007 | Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD | The Human SDS protein, SBDS, associates with Ribosomal RNA |
| 2006 | David Pearce, MD University of Rochester | Functional characteristics of sdo1p/SBDS |
| 2006 | E. Nicolis, MD University Hospital of Vernon, Verona, Italy | SBDS mRNA expression in peripheral blood leukocytes |
| 2006 | Peter Durle, MD Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto | SBDS protein expression in peripheral blood leukocytes |
| 2005 | Yigal Dror, MD Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto | Identification of Genes involved in Marrow Failure and Malignant Myeloid Transformation by Gene Expression Analysis of Bone Marrows from Patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome and other inherited Marrow Failure Syndromes |
| 2004 | Johnson Liu, MD Mount Sini School of Medicine | Hematopoietic Defect in Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Knockdown and Overexpression of SBDS. |