Deadlines
Letter of Intent: March 15, 2025
Application: May 15, 2025
About
FARA offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship to support young investigators in the FA biomedical research space. For this application type, the PI of the grant proposal may be either the trainee or the trainee’s faculty advisor; however, both the trainee and advisor must be named in the application.
Eligible applicants are postdoctoral trainees with fewer than 6 years working as a postdoctoral trainee, accounting for career disruptions, and fewer than 4 years working in an FA lab as a postdoctoral trainee. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement describing their current position and plans for the future as it relates to FA research, with a description of career goals and how the proposed research and research environment will favor achieving those goals. A mentoring plan developed jointly by the junior investigator and mentor(s), as well as letters of support from all mentors are also required. The only allowable budget item is the trainee salary/stipend (plus applicable fringe benefits), which must not exceed the appropriate NIH stipend level. Postdoctoral trainees should provide a minimum 75% effort contributed to the design, writing and implementation of the proposed work. The maximum direct salary that can be requested cannot exceed the NIH stipend level for 100% effort. If the trainee is contributing less than 100% effort then the stipend request must be reduced to correspond to this effort. For example, if the trainee’s effort is 85%, then the stipend requested can be no more than 85% of the appropriate NIH stipend level.
Maximum Budget: $50,000 per year, up to 3 years
Grant Program Priorities
The FARA Grant Program supports basic, translational and clinical research with the goal of advancing therapeutic development in FA. All proposed research must fall within FARA s Grant Program Priorities. All investigators interested in FA-related research are invited to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) through our submission portal.
Advancing understanding of neuroscience/systems
Advancing understanding of cardiac disease in FA
Advancing understanding of the molecular basis of FA
Advancing drug discovery
Facilitating the drug development process and translational research
Advancing clinical research
For more detailed information, please see the Foundation opportunity webpage.