Deadline: July 15, 2025
Background
The Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium (TARCC) is a collaborative research effort funded by the State of Texas as part of the Darrell K Royal Texas Alzheimer’s Initiative. TARCC is committed to excellence in Research and Care for Texans in an attempt to identify risk factors, diagnostic and prognostic indicators, and eventually, find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and related disorders in our lifetime, and to expand the strategies aimed at combatting the epidemic of AD and related neurodegenerative disorders. TARCC is pleased to announce its 2025 Request for Applications (RFA) to support an innovative, translational based research structure across the state of Texas, and to ensure that a diverse pool of well-trained basic and translational researchers, and clinician-scientists are available to aid in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
Funding Priorities
TARCC is interested in novel, innovative, and cutting-edge approaches to the study of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, including clinical and basic science research proposals. The 2025 TARCC grant program is particularly interested in applications from junior investigators and projects that reflect cutting-edge science that will provide pilot data for larger proposals.
Current areas of interest include:
- Developmental, pilot, and high-risk/high-reward projects related to Alzheimer’s and related conditions
- Proposals that utilize the TARCC database and/or biosamples
- Individual fellowship training proposals to prepare culturally competent clinical researchers
- Collaborative proposals that include more than one TARCC member institution
- General health and environmental factors that may influence the development, diagnosis, and/or progression of neurodegenerative conditions
- Basic science and non-human animal studies relevant to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
- Advances in therapeutic interventions for prevention and treatment
- Advances in early detection and assessment of cognitive decline and disease progression
- Multidimensional diagnostic/statistical prediction models
- Dementia caregiving
- Use of technology in dementia assessment, monitoring, and caregiving
- Note: Proposals to analyze data from existing dementia- related datasets will be considered
Please note that any investigator funded by TARCC may be required to share data and samples with the centrally managed TARCC Cores, as appropriate.
Award Amount
- Investigator Initiated Research Grant – up to $200,000 (direct costs*) per year for 1-2 years
- Collaborative Research Grant – up to $150,000 (direct costs*) per year, per Member Institution, for 1-2 years
- Junior Investigator Research Grant – up to $150,000 (direct costs*) per year for 1-2 years *FTE is capped at 50% for PI of Junior Investigator project
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant – up to $100,000 (direct costs*) per year for 1-2 years
*Indirect funds are capped at 10% of Modified Total Direct Costs.
*FTE is capped at 25% for PI, Co-PIs, and Co-Investigators
For more information, please see the opportunity announcement.