AFAR, Glenn Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
Grant Amount: $75,000
Deadline: Letter of Intent due January 27, 2025
The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, in partnership with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), created the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research to encourage and further the careers of postdoctoral fellows, who are conducting research in the basic biology of aging, as well as translating advances in basic research from the laboratory to the clinic.
Through the fellowship program, up to 12 researchers will receive $75,000 for research projects aimed at understanding the basic mechanisms of aging as well as projects that will have direct relevance to human aging if they lead to clinically relevant strategies that address human aging and healthspan. Projects investigating age-related diseases will be considered, but only if approached from the point of view of how basic aging processes may lead to these outcomes. Projects concerning mechanisms underlying common geriatric functional disorders such as frailty will also be considered.
Projects that are strictly clinical in nature such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible.
To be eligible, applicants must be a postdoctoral fellow (MD and/or PhD degree or equivalent) at the start date of the award (July 1, 2025) and the proposed research must be conducted at a qualified not-for-profit setting in the United States.
Letters of intent are due January 27, 2025, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application, due in late May 2025.
Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.
Whitehall Foundation: Grant for Basic Research in Neurobiology
Grant Amount: $30,000 and $100,000
Deadline: Letter of Intent due January 15, 2025
The Whitehall Foundation aims to support scholarly research in the life sciences that is not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest.
The foundation invites LOIs for two grant programs:
Research: Grants of up to $100,000 per year for two to three years will be awarded to established scientists working at accredited institutions in the United States. Grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose.
Grants-in-Aid: One-year grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to researchers at the assistant professor level who have trouble competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists.
The foundation is interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.
The principal investigator must hold the position of assistant professor or the equivalent in order to participate in the application process. The applicant need not be in a tenure track position but must be an independent researcher and have principal investigator status at his/her institution, usually construed as having lab space independent of another principal investigator.
Letters of intent must be received no later than January 15, 2025, and selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications by June 1, 2025.
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.