FRAXA Fellowships
FRAXA Research Foundation
Award: $45000 – $45000
Deadline: February 1.
To encourage research aimed at finding a specific treatment for fragile X syndrome. Qualifications: Applicants must be application per lab group, and current grantees are not eligible, non-transferable (only good for specified postdoc, and institution), must demonstrate adequate overall funding to pursue the project, successful applicants for these grants will likely be working in established labs which have funding for supplies and any required animal handling cost, If the applicant proposes to work with a particular Fragile X model (mouse, drosophila, neural stem cells, etc.) he should demonstrate that this model system is already established in-house. How to apply: Applicants must provide the following information with their application description of the proposed project (8-15 pages recommended); curriculum vitae for the principal investigator; curriculum vitae for the postdoctoral fellow to be supported under the grant; names of three references who are willing to be contacted to provide recommendations for candidate postdoctoral fellow; financial accounting of how the funds will be spent, with dollar distribution into major component items; a full accounting of any other current and submitted sources of support for this project and other lab research; requested start date of the project; the earliest possible state date is three months after receipt of the application; completed application must be submitted via email; application must be in a PDF format of less than 15 MB. Focus: General studies/Field of study not specified.