McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
Funds two three-year, $750,000 research awards to newly independent US faculty studying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss.
Applicants submit a Letter of Intent by April 15, and a subset are invited to complete a full application roughly four months later. A review committee scores submissions on five criteria and passes recommendations to the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and AFAR, which make the final funding call. Two winners each receive $750,000 paid over three years, with up to 10% of that allowed for instit…
This program backs advanced Assistant Professors and newly promoted Associate Professors who already hold independent NIH-level funding and study the biology of cognitive aging and age-related memory loss. One award supports clinical translational research and the other supports basic biological mechanisms behind cognitive decline. Research focused mainly on Alzheimer's disease or other neurodegenerative disease is out of scope.
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