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Objectiu de la convocatòria
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), is a leading nongovernmental agency fully committed to funding research in epilepsy.

CURE’s investigator-initiated grants program seeks to push the envelope and accelerate promising research leading to disease-modifying breakthroughs for people living with epilepsy. CURE prioritizes highly innovative, risky, paradigm-shifting projects that address CURE’s mission to cure epilepsy, affirming our core belief that the only acceptable final goal is “no seizures, no side-effects.”
CURE strongly encourages multidisciplinary, collaborative projects, especially those that include investigators and expertise from fields outside of epilepsy.

2017 Priority areas
  • Transformative research to enhance our understanding of the cellular, molecular, genetic and systems-level mechanisms that lead to any of the epilepsies, facilitating the continued investigation of disease-modifying or preventative strategies
  • Innovative approaches that can prevent, modify and/or arrest the development of acquired epilepsy after stroke, tumor, viral infection, etc.*
  • Research that will inform the development of novel therapies to prevent onset or halt the progression of the severe pediatric epilepsies
  • Research focused on new, effective treatments for the >30% of the epilepsy population who are pharmacoresistant Novel research that furthers our understanding of the causes and ultimate elimination of SUDEP
    *Due to the exciting launch of our Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Team Science Initiative in collaboration with the Department of Defense, this priority area has been slightly revised to exclude epilepsy as a result of head injury.

    Based on CURE’s current research objectives, lower priority will be given for research in the following areas:
  • Research that focuses solely on a comorbid condition without also seeking to address/understand the accompanying epilepsy
  • Research that focuses solely on improving localization of the epileptic seizure focus
    • Lloc de presentació
    El personal de l'IMIM i PSMAR que necessiteu més informació adreceu-vos a:
    Servei de Recerca. C/ Doctor Aiguader, 88. 08003 Barcelona. Tel.: 93.316.04.00.
    • Carol Barnwell, cbarnwell@imim.es. Ext.: 1670
    • Marta López, mlopez4@imim.es Ext.: 1576
    Convocatòria (URL)
    http://www.cureepilepsy.org/research/grant_cure.asp
    Requisits
    The award is available to both established and early career investigators*. Researchers who serve on CURE’s Scientific Advisory Council are ineligible to apply for or sponsor a grant for the duration of their term. International applicants are welcome.

    * Generally, early career investigators are university faculty at the assistant professor level (or hold an equivalent position in a non-university research organization). Established investigators are university faculty at the associate professor level or above. Post-doctoral fellows may not apply for this award.
    Dotació
    $ 250,000
    Durada
    2 years
    Documentació
    The call has a two-stage procedure:
  • Letters of Intent (LOI) due on April 12, 2017 - 9pm ET
  • Full applications are due on July 12, 2017 -9pm ET

    All letters of intent must be submitted through proposalCENTRAL: https://proposalcentral.altum.com

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