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Cure epilepsy award
Offered by Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
Key Details
Deadline Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Award Amount $250 000
Duration 2 years
Host Country United States
Years Since PhD Early career investigators are university faculty at the assistant professor level (or hold an equivalent position in a non-university research organization).
Additional Information
Comments The CURE Innovator Award supports the exploration of a highly innovative, often risky new concept or untested theory that addresses an important problem relevant to epilepsy. The Innovator Award proposed research must reflect ideas substantially different from those being pursued by anyone in the epilepsy research field. The program is not intended to support the logical progression of an already established research project but, instead, allows Principal Investigators (PIs) the opportunity to pursue radically unconventional, paradigm-shifting hypotheses. CURE AwardsThis award mechanism supports high-risk studies that have the potential to reveal entirely new areas of epilepsy research. Research completed through an Innovator Award must provide sufficient preliminary data to enable the PI to prove or disprove their groundbreaking, original, and/or unconventional hypothesis and have the potential, if the scope of work is successful, to move epilepsy research forward by leaps rather than by incremental steps. Areas of Interest: This program awards seed grants to researchers submitting innovative proposals that will provide new directions for epilepsy disease modifying therapies, prevention and, ultimately, a cure. We specifically encourage studies that may not be currently fundable by other agencies or other mechanisms because of their preliminary, innovative or unconventional nature.
About the Funder
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy United States
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Last Updated June 2020
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