Alberta Alzheimer Research Program
This partnership between the Alberta Prion Research Institute and the
Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories allows qualified Alberta
investigators to seek funding for research directly related to Alzheimer’s
disease in areas related to understanding the fundamental mechanisms of the
disease and improving the quality of life of those with Alzheimer’s
disease.
There are two streams for grants: the Young Investigator Grants and the
Regular Research Grants. Young Investigator Grants are available to Alberta
researchers who are within five years of their first appointment after
completing their research training. These grants are for up to $100,000 per year
for up to two years. Regular Research Grants are available to all Alberta
researchers, including young investigators. These grants are for up to $75,000
per year for up to two years.
Applications are due October 26, 2015.
>> Program Guidelines
Explorations Program Applications for the fourth round of the Explorations
Program are now being accepted. The Explorations Program allows Alberta-based
investigators to seek funding for research directly related to prion diseases
and prion-like human neurodegenerative diseases and dementias. The Alberta Prion
Research Institute offers two tiers of funding for the Explorations competition:
grants of up to $200,000 for a maximum of two years, and grants of up to
$500,000 for a maximum of three years.
Applications are due November 30, 2015.
Explorations Program IV
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Description The Explorations Program IV is intended to allow qualified
investigators to seek funding for research directly related to prion diseases
and human neurodegenerative diseases and dementias where the etiology involves
protein misfolding and the pathogenesis has prion-like characteristics. Funding
is accessible for all relevant fields of inquiry in the themes as described
below. The deadline for submission of applications is November 30, 2015.
Grantees will be expected to participate in the training of young investigators,
especially graduate students and fellows, and their stipends may be paid from
Alberta Prion Research Institute (Prion Institute) grants. Trainees may hold
other awards or salary support while receiving stipends from Prion Institute
grants. All usual operating expenses for a research project that are consistent
with the Tri-Council policy on the use of grant funding (www.nserc.ca) will be
allowable for grants funded in an Explorations Competition IV except salaries
for investigators and overhead costs. Final decisions on the amount of funding
awarded and limitations on specific categories of spending remain with the Prion
Institute and will be identified in an Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions award
agreement.
Maximum amounts available for funding:
There are two tiers of funding available in the Explorations Competition
IV: Tier I: Grants of up to $200,000 for a maximum period of two years Tier II:
Grants of up to $500,000 for a maximum period of three years Themes accessible
for funding: Prion Diseases
Protein Folding and Misfolding
Pathobiology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)
Surveillance and Control
TSEs and Society Prion-like human neurodegenerative diseases and
dementias
Protein Folding and Misfolding Prion-like Mechanisms in Pathobiology
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Self-Propagative Replication of Ab Oligomers Suggests Potential
Transmissibility in Alzheimer Disease
Received July 24, 2014; Accepted September 16, 2014; Published November 3,
2014
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Alzheimergate, re-Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology
and cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Singeltary Submission to Nature
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