Health A setback to research that offered hope for fibrous dysplasia patients Halt to federal funding disrupts study of rare skeletal disease Heather Denny HSDM Communications August 7, 2025 3 min read In 2023, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was awarded a U.S. Department of Defense grant to fund a four-year study of fibrous dysplasia (FD), a severe skeletal disease in which benign tumors cause bone deformities, fractures, and pain. The award aimed to investigate the cellular and molecu...
