Detall de la convocatòria

Característiques

Característica
Objectiu de la convocatòria
CURE Epilepsy’s grant programs seek to accelerate promising research leading to new treatments and cures for people living with epilepsy. CURE Epilepsy prioritizes innovative projects that address our mission, affirming our core belief that the only acceptable final goal is “no seizures, no side effects.”
Característiques principals
The following priority areas reflect CURE Epilepsy’s focus on advances that have the potential to truly transform and save lives. Prevention, disease modification, and elimination are critical goals and consistent with our mission.

  • Transformative research to enhance our understanding of the cellular, molecular, genetic, and systems-level mechanisms.
  • Innovative approaches that can prevent, modify and/or arrest the development of acquired epilepsy.
  • 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 >thirty percent of the epilepsy population who are pharmacoresistant.
  • Novel research that furthers our understanding of the causes and ultimate elimination of SUDEP.
  • Translational, clinical, and clinically informed basic research that will facilitate understanding of the cellular-, molecular-, and systems-level mechanisms that underlie the relationships between sleep and epilepsy.
  • Based on CURE Epilepsy’s current research objectives, lower priority will be given for research in the following areas:

    1. Research that focuses solely on a comorbid condition without also seeking to address/understand the accompanying epilepsy.
    2. Research that focuses solely on improving localization of the epileptic seizure focus.
    • Lloc de presentació
    IMIM and PSMAR staff who need more information should contact:
    Research Grants and Contracts Office. 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)
    https://www.cureepilepsy.org/grants-program/
    Requisits
    This award is available to both established and early career investigators*. Researchers who serve on CURE Epilepsy’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 January 9, 2024, 9 PM ET
  • Full applications are due on February 20, 2024, 9 PM ET

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

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    Arxius

    Arxiu
    2024-CURE-Epilepsy-Award-LOI-and-Full-Proposal-Guidelines_Final.pdf