AT the moment, not really, but the communities of rare diseases often have put together a nonprofit foundation for fundraising, etc. The grants are really not

AT the moment, not really, but the communities of rare diseases often have put together a nonprofit foundation for fundraising, etc. The grants are really not big and don't really fund serious research in that they are a fraction of a typical NIH R01, R23 or K grant, and typically do not cover indirect funding (i.e. the slice of the pie the university or hospital takes for "overhead").