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AHAF Research Grants Funding
Grant Funding for Alzheimer's Research
Grant Funding for Macular Degeneration Research
Grant Funding for Glaucoma Research
 

  

Open Award Programs

In this section, you will find information on:

Active Annual Award Programs

Alzheimer's Disease Research

The ADR program offers three types of awards:

  • Standard Awards
    Award Amount: $400,000
    Duration: 3 yrs
    Deadline for full application submission: October 19, 2009

The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but often still require significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.

  • Pilot Awards
    Award Amount: $150,000
    Duration: 2 Yrs
    Deadline for full application submission: October 19, 2009

Pilot awards are designed to take a highly innovative proposal with modest preliminary data and give investigators the opportunity to prove their ideas. These awards are typically described as being ‘high risk – high reward’. They are often given to investigators who need funding to demonstrate the validity of a very focused hypothesis.

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards
    Award Amount: $100,000
    Duration: 2 yrs
    Deadline for full application submission: October 19, 2009

Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. These awards are meant to fund projects in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant's own independent research career.

The discovery and development of drugs is a very expensive and time-consuming process. For academic researchers in this field, the lack of sufficient funding is a particularly great hurdle which often severely limits research progress …. AHAF thus serve(s) a vital role, not only in providing much-needed funds for translational research, but also in connecting researchers with different areas of expertise and enabling them to bring together their knowledge and experience in innovative ways. For these reasons we are sincerely grateful and very much indebted to the AHAF and its donors for their support of our research into new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

- Donald Weaver, Ph.D.

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Macular Degeneration Research

  • Standard Award
    Maximum award value: $100,000
    Maximum duration: 2 years
    Letter of Intent Deadline: July 10, 2009
    Deadline for Invited Full Submissions: October 29, 2009*

The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but often still require significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.

The AHAF funding has been essential in enabling a large, collaborative research study on the genetics of AMD. We have been able to use this grant to prepare for a much larger project by enhancing the value of our established patient resources and ensuring that we have funding for the data analyses. Essentially, the AHAF and other funds available to us at this time have been leveraged into a $3.5 million genotyping project funded by the National Eye Institute. This project is expected to revolutionize our understanding of AMD by helping identify many of the remaining and unknown genetic risks for AMD.

- Albert O. Edwards, M.D., Ph.D.

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National Glaucoma Research

  • Standard Awards
    Award Amount: $100,000
    Maximun Duration: 2 yrs
    Deadline for full application submission: October 23, 2009

The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but often still require significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.

We appreciate very much the support from AHAF and wish to express our reverence and high esteem to the donors, administrators and reviewers. The award we received from National Glaucoma Research and the AHAF has been a very significant factor in advancing our knowledge of retinal stem cells and their use in therapy for retinal diseases. Receiving this award came a significant time in our research as we are now able to direct our knowledge from years of basic research to actually rescue blindness in mice.

-Derek Van der Kooy, Ph.D.

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Special Awards Programs

Occasionally, AHAF offers award programs outside of the traditional annual awards. At this time the following are open:

INSIGHT AWARD Nominations for Alzheimer’s Disease Research or Macular Degeneration Research Award Amount: Special (see instructions) Maximun Duration: 5 yrs Topic: Early Detection and Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease or Macular Degeneration. Deadline for nomination submission: June 5th, 2009

INSIGHT AWARD: A major annual award designed to recognize advances in science related to AHAF program goals by facilitating future advancement.

This recognition award is a peer-reviewed recognition award made through the American Health Assistance Foundation. The award is designed to highlight previous achievements in defined research areas. Research areas are determined in any given year by the AHAF Board of Directors.

The difference between this award and traditional AHAF awards is that the value of the award is not be budgeted towards a specific project, but would be distributable to all Alzheimer’s disease or macular degeneration related projects within the laboratory of the awardee.

The award recipient will be required to submit a budget request every six months for expenditures of award money to be made in the following six month period. Annual financial and research progress reporting is required, similar to traditional AHAF awards.

View the Alzheimer's Disease Research (ADR) Insight Award guidelines and application template.

View the Macular Degeneration Research (MDR) Insight Award guidelines and application template.


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*All deadlines are considered to be 11:59 PM EST (Washington, D.C.) on the date of the deadline.

Last Reviewed On: 05/12/09