Neurodegeneration Challenge Network: Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards

The CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network has three goals:

(1) to make fundamental advances toward understanding neurodegeneration;

(2) to bring new ideas and talent to the field of neurodegeneration;

(3) to encourage a new type of interdisciplinary collaborative research involving scientists, clinicians and engineers

The Ben Barres Awards are investigator grants for early career academic investigators, 2-6 years from first tenured position, with an emphasis on those who are new to the field of neurodegeneration.

Funding: $500,000 per year 

Duration: 5 years

Research Authority due date: 10.4.18

Pls. note that second stage applicants will be required to interview in California, USA on September 10-13, 2018.