BrightFocus Foundation – Alzheimer’s Disease Standard Award
Event details
| Date | 25.08.2023 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: BrightFocus provides funding for domestic and international researchers to cover a wide range of investigator-initiated topics to better understand, treat, and prevent Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Duration: 3 years
Funding: $ 300’000
The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.
Eligibility:
Must be allowed by institution to apply for and manage a grant award and mentor students.
How to Apply: The BrightFocus Foundation employs a two-tiered review process in which proposals are first submitted by Letter of Intent. Letters of intent must be submitted through proposalCENTRAL. Instructions for use of the portal can be found here. If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Reviewers will invite the most enthusiastically reviewed Letters of Intent to submit a full application.
Letter of Intent deadline: 25 August 2023 (5:00 p.m. EST (Washington, D.C.))
Further information
Duration: 3 years
Funding: $ 300’000
The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.
Eligibility:
Must be allowed by institution to apply for and manage a grant award and mentor students.
How to Apply: The BrightFocus Foundation employs a two-tiered review process in which proposals are first submitted by Letter of Intent. Letters of intent must be submitted through proposalCENTRAL. Instructions for use of the portal can be found here. If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Reviewers will invite the most enthusiastically reviewed Letters of Intent to submit a full application.
Letter of Intent deadline: 25 August 2023 (5:00 p.m. EST (Washington, D.C.))
Further information
- More information about the program in general is available here, and about the current call here.
- More information about how to apply can be found here.
- The application portal can be found here.
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free