Duke Aging Center and Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation 2022 Neuroscience Program Request for Applications

Funding Agency:
Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation

The Metairie, Louisiana based Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation has invited Duke to participate in its 2022 Neuroscience Program through the Duke Aging Center. The Foundation has designated $170,000 to support up to three early career Duke neuroscience principal investigators through an internal award competition.

The Foundation seeks to support innovative fundamental basic science research on the mechanisms underlying memory and learning. They wish to invest in and support early career principal investigators. Applications from investigators who are establishing their laboratory and developing foundational research findings are encouraged. The intention is for these awards to provide start-up funding that will enable early career investigators to act on promising projects and obtain bedrock data that may one day lead to significant improvements in the human experience. These awards are designed to fill the gap between scientists’ imaginations and the first solid set of data that allows them to attract additional funding to further their research.

One-page summary of project proposal, brief one-paragraph PI introduction, and NIH-style biosketch of the PI are due February 20, 2022. See full announcement for more details.

Eligibility Requirements

Investigators within their first 5 years of faculty appointment and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for these funds. The most competitive applicants will be those who have compelling questions and preliminary data but have not yet received major independent awards from external funders.

Amount Description

Up to three PIs will receive $15,000 awards in April 2022 following the Foundation’s review of brief written proposal summaries submitted through the Duke Aging Center to the Foundation for consideration. The three preliminary awardees will then compete against one another for one $125,000 award to be spent over one or two years, not subject to renewal.

Funding Type

Award
Grant

Eligibility

Junior Faculty
Post Doctoral Fellows

Category

Medical
Medical - Basic Science

External Deadline

February 20, 2022