Join Our Team

Welcome to Project 8p Foundation, where everyday brings new opportunities to make a profound impact. Our team is driven by an unwavering commitment to improve the lives of individuals with Chromosome 8p Disorders, or as we affectionately call these patients, 8p Heroes.

Our work extends beyond conventional boundaries as we strive to achieve our mission: To empower a unified community for chromosome 8p heroes for a meaningful life today while accelerating treatments for tomorrow.

Why Join Us

  • Achieve More: Join an organization that values efficiency. We believe in working faster to achieve our goals and make a quicker impact. 

  • Collaborative Team: Join a supportive and collaborative team environment where your ideas are valued and your efforts directly impact our community. 

  • Innovative Culture: Contribute to groundbreaking initiatives aimed at enhancing lives today, while accelerating future treatments.

  • Meaningful Impact – Become part of a community with a shared purpose as we make a real difference for 8p Heroes.

Current Openings:

Project 8p Science Director

We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to lead multi-faceted research programs in academia or industry to accelerate moving discoveries out of the lab and into clinical development across multiple therapeutic modalities (drug repurposing, gene therapies, etc).

Project 8p Executive Director

We seek a creative fundraising Executive Director with at least 10 years of work experience to advance medical and science-based initiatives to target, qualify, engage and, with the Board Chair, directly solicit individual, institutional donors and venture philanthropy solutions.

The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.
  • Lead with knowledge from patients. Currently, there is no cure for 8p disorders, nor is there a standard course of treatment.

The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Raise transformative funding for pioneering scientific research into treatments for a complex, rare disease involving 250+ affected genes on the short arm of the 8 th chromosome (8p). Rearrangements of these genes causes significant abnormalities to the entire neurological system, thus all organs and functions of the body– with variance in cognitive functions, gross motor skills, social development and other challenges during infancy, and throughout life;
  • Empower a unified community of 8p patients and their families so they can have meaningful lives today; and
  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.