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.