The BrighFocus Foundation Alzeimer's disease Research Awards for 2017.

Standard Awards:

Aim: 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 criteria:

- The Principal Investigator (PI) position on BrightFocus Standard Awards are open to tenure- and non-tenure track investigators of any career           stage who are appropriately trained to lead an independent research study, and are permitted by their organizations to manage grants and             supervise key personnel.

-  The proposal should be initiated by the postdoctoral fellow and not the supervisor.

-  Investigators who are less than 10 years past their doctoral or post residency (MD or DO)

-  Investigators that are new to Alzheimer’s and related dementia field of research even if past the 10 years

- Other junior faculty members will be accepted: Instructor, Research Associate Scientist, etc. In that case, a letter of employment must be provided (indicating they will have a full-time faculty position of an Assistant Professor and above by the award date)

Budget: $300.000

Duration: 3 years

Deadlines:

- VHIR's internal deadline: 9/10/2017

- Deadline : 18/10/2017

Further information: BrighFocus Foundation Alzeimer's disease Research Awards