Deadline: December 6, 2024
Description
AFTD Pilot Grants provide seed funding for novel research in the initial phase of development across the full spectrum of FTD disorders (behavioral variant FTD, primary progressive aphasia, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, and FTD-ALS). Pilot Grants aid recipients in generating data that will be the basis for follow-on funding applications to government funders or other public or private agencies.
AFTD Pathways for Hope Pilot Grants provide seed funding for early-career investigators carrying out innovative science across the full spectrum of FTLD disorders (behavioral variant FTD, primary progressive aphasias, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, and FTD-ALS). These awards support recipients in developing an independent research program and generating data that will be the basis for follow-on funding applications to other funders.
Suitable research topics may focus on sporadic or familial FTD. Examples include but are not limited to:
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms disrupted in FTD
- Development and characterization of novel animal (vertebrate or invertebrate) or cellular models that recapitulate FTD symptoms and pathology
- Network approaches to understanding neural circuits relevant to FTD-related deficits in social cognition, emotional regulation, language, or movement
- Cognitive or behavioral neuroscience of FTD symptoms
- Mechanistic modeling or other computational/systems biology approaches to understanding FTD-relevant cellular pathways using existing -omics data resources
- Biomarker discovery or development
- Therapeutic target identification and validation
- Development of novel diagnostics or clinical outcome measures, including digital tools for passive or active data collection.
For more information, please see the Foundation website.