Project 8p Faster

A Compelling Case-for-Investing

Through challenges to better understand and treat abnormalities to chromosome 8p, inspirational donors will transform science and human health at large. Motivated donors are sought to ensure continued speed in connecting silos and supporting some of the world’s greatest scientists and innovators gathered by Project 8p to seek immediate treatments and long- term cures for 8p kids.

Transformational Donors are Sought

In solving the 8p problem, such donors will be part of an even grander vision to ensure that all children and families live happy, healthy lives. There are not too many things more important than that.
Project 8p Faster is an initiative to efficiently raise $5.3M of funding from enlightened philanthropists to then attract the exact partners to fully enable and finance the complete process for bringing these Project 8p supported therapies to market. Project 8p Faster represents a “rare” opportunity for donors to maximize their giving and to personally experience the joy of ending suffering from this disease and others.
Research for rare diseases has long been neglected in favor of more financially lucrative research for mainstream diseases. Enlightened donors can change this, and in partnership with the Project 8p team create something of historic significance. By solving the 8p problem, new paths will be unleashed to help ensure that all people can live disease free.

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.