Grants & Funding

Alzheimer's Association

Published Date: October 21, 2009

Program Information

Program Name:

U.S.-U.K. Young Investigator Exchange Fellowship

Program URL:

http://www.alz.org/downloads/grants2010/Part%208%20U.S.-U.K.%20Fellowship.pdf

Type of Scientists Funded:

Junior Faculty

Program Description:

The U.S.-U.K. Young Investigator Exchange Fellowship provides a 3-year grant to fund quality scientific research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The fellowship aims to address important research questions as well as to help and encourage promising scientists as they establish their careers within Alzheimer's research internationally. It is also hoped that by supporting meaningful scientific collaboration between scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States, there will be mutual benefit to the research output of both countries. In addition to an exchange of ideas, an important aim is to promote the learning of new experimental techniques and methodologies.

The purpose of this fellowship is to provide new investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures and to develop hypotheses on an international level. The intent is to support international early-career development that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to other international funding agencies and groups. Applications submitted to the U.S.-U.K. Young Investigator Exchange Fellowship must target defined areas of focus in the Alzheimer's Association 2010 program announcement to be considered responsive to the program announcement. The research aims and priorities of the Alzheimer's Research Trust (ART) are available on the ART website.

The U.S.-U.K. Young Investigator Exchange Fellowship requires the proposed project to be aligned with a main supervisor and institution that will commit to allow the applicant to fulfill the exchange component of the fellowship if awarded. Central to the proposed arrangement is a co-supervisor from the second country who is able to guarantee provision for the agreed duration of the visit, which can be from 1 to 12 months. The co-supervisor's institution must agree to confer visiting fellow status to the awardee to ensure the fellow is allowed access to resources and services at the visiting institution.

Public Contact Information

Program Award Term and Application Process

• Award Term Fixed or Variable?    Variable
• Minimum Term     
• Maximum Term     
• Award Renewable?    No
• Does an individual or institution apply to the program?    Individual
• Is there an application deadline?    Yes
• Application deadline(s):
  12/01/2009
• Deadline Comments   
  Deadlines and award dates: LOIs must be received by 5:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME, December 1, 2009. LOIs will not be accepted after this date. No exceptions will be made. Applications must be received by 5:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME, January 7, 2010. Scientific and technical review will be conducted from February through May 2010. The second-level review by the Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer's Research Trust will be conducted in June 2010. For both U.S. and U.K. applicants, candidate interviews will take place in June 2010. We anticipate funding up to four awards by July 2010.

Program FUNDS

• Stipend Information:
  
  
• Annual stipend type:    Not Applicable
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  Research Allowance Information:
  
  
• Annual research allowance type:    Not Applicable
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  Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Information:
  
  
• Indirect costs type:    Not Applicable
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  Other Costs Information:
  
  
• Other Costs type:    Not Applicable

Program Eligibility Requirements

Research Areas:

Clinical Research, Disease-Specific Research: Alzheimer's, Instrumentation, Neuroscience, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Application by invitation or nomination only?

Are awards limited to specific groups?

None provided

Must applicants be U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents?

No

U.S. geographic limits?

No

International geographic limits?

Yes

Details (specify region, state or other restrictions)?

This grant competition is restricted to investigators based in the U.S. or U.K.

Institutional limits?

Yes

Non-research activity allowed for postdoctoral and junior faculty awards?

If yes, specify at least one of the following: percentage time and activities allowed

• Other eligibility requirements:   
  This grant competition is restricted to investigators based in the U.S. or U.K. who have less than 10 years of research experience after receipt of their terminal degree. Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply. The 10-year period applies to the date of submission of the grant application. Adjustments for career interruptions can be made. These would include, but are not limited to, family leave, military service and major illness or injury. It is the responsibility of the applicant to point out and document such interruptions. Young investigators currently funded through other fellowship awards (i.e., federal or other) are ineligible to apply for this award.

Program competition information

• Number of Applicants in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Number of Awards in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Institutional Award Rates   

  Category	# Applicants	# Awards
  Institutional Awards

• Awardee's subsequent careers/accomplishments tracked after end of term?   
  
• Total dollars awarded in the most recent competition year