{"id":129427,"date":"2021-10-23T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mike-graglia-managing-dir-co-founder-syngap-research-fund-collaboration-transparency-urgency"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:23:54","slug":"mike-graglia-managing-dir-co-founder-syngap-research-fund-collaboration-transparency-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mike-graglia-managing-dir-co-founder-syngap-research-fund-collaboration-transparency-urgency","title":{"rendered":"Mike Graglia, Managing Dir &amp; Co-Founder, SynGAP Research Fund \u2014 Collaboration, Transparency, Urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RGnStUPmUkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Collaboration, transparency &amp; urgency for rare disease research \u2014 mike graglia, managing director &amp; co-founder, syngap research fund \u2014 SRF.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mike Graglia is the Managing Director &amp; Co-Founder of the SynGAP Research Fund (SRF \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syngapresearchfund.org\/),\">https:\/\/www.syngapresearchfund.org\/),<\/a> an organization that he set up in 2018 with his wife Ashley, after their son was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease caused by an insufficiency in SynGAP protein, which causes the life-changing diagnoses of Epilepsy, Autism, sleep disorder and intellectual disability.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of SRF is to improve the quality of life of SynGAP1 patients through the research and development of treatments, therapies and support systems.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Mike worked at the Emerson Collective, New America Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BCG, the World Bank\/IFC and the US Peace Corps\/Namibia. During his time in Africa he created a small charity to fund girls\u2019 education.<\/p>\n<p>Mike graduated from Gonzaga University with a BS in mathematics. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Columbia Business School.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mike-graglia-managing-dir-co-founder-syngap-research-fund-collaboration-transparency-urgency\">Continue reading \u201cMike Graglia, Managing Dir &amp; Co-Founder, SynGAP Research Fund \u2014 Collaboration, Transparency, Urgency\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaboration, transparency &amp; urgency for rare disease research \u2014 mike graglia, managing director &amp; co-founder, syngap research fund \u2014 SRF. Mike Graglia is the Managing Director &amp; Co-Founder of the SynGAP Research Fund (SRF \u2014 https:\/\/www.syngapresearchfund.org\/), an organization that he set up in 2018 with his wife Ashley, after their son was diagnosed with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,32,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-education","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}