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This grant looks to award proposals designed to encourage the identification of early diagnostic markers of ALS. Examples of approaches that might be supported include, but are not limited to:

• Digital diagnostics (including video-based)
• Imaging diagnostics 
• Eleatrodiagnostics 
• Biosample-based diagnostics (fluid or tisue) 
• Other diagnostic approaches (breath analysis, risk-factor analysis, cognitive/behavioural phenotyping, other modelling etc.)

Award: $500,000 (maximum over 3 years) 

Deadline: 01 March 2023 (5pm US ET)

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Grant amount: £65,000

The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) initiative has announced an €16.5 million transnational call inviting multi-national research teams to submit proposals for ambitious, innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-national collaborative research projects that seek to improve the understanding of the complex and multifactorial pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases by applying multi-OMICs and Big data approaches to generate useful information for the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and drug discovery of neurodegenerative diseases.

Proposals submitted under this call must focus on one or several of the following neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease and PD-related disorders, prion diseases, motor-neuron diseases, Huntington’s disease, spinocerebellar ataxia and spinal muscular atrophy. 

Pre-proposals must be submitted no later than 12:00 CET on 07 March 2023.

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The Frick Foundation is looking for talented early-career scientists who have already produced excellent supervised work, ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader.

Two researchers will receive 100,000 Swiss francs each that can be used over 2 years. Researchers of any nationality with 5 years of experience since completion of their PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal. Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (known as a Host Institution/HI).

Applications can be sent by e-mail for the deadline of 30 September 2023.

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Marie Curie have opened applications to their research impact fund which is specifically for palliative and end of life care research. The fund is designed to support evidence-based research that could help to change current policy and practices. Applicants can apply for grants up to £10,000.

Application deadline: 16 January 2023

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This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites researchers to submit applications for support of clinical projects that address critical needs for clinical trial readiness in rare diseases. The initiative seeks applications that are intended to facilitate rare disease research by enabling efficient and effective movement of candidate therapeutics or diagnostics towards clinical trials, and to increase their likelihood of success through development and testing of rigorous biomarkers and clinical outcome assessment measures, or by defining the presentation and course of a rare disease to enable the design of upcoming clinical trials.

Applications are now invited with the next application due date on 15 May 2023.

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The NIHR is inviting research proposals that seek to develop the critical underlying infrastructure to accelerate progress in and learning from MND clinical trials.

Deadline dates vary depending on the NIHR Programme involved in the funding call. 

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The Radala Foundation is looking for established, leading principal investigators eligible for 200,000 CHF research funding to pursue a potentially ground-breaking, high-risk project for 2 years in basic research in ALS. One or two grants of 200,000 Swiss francs will be given each year.

Application deadline is on 30 June 2023.

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The MND Pre-Fellowship scheme has been designed to attract and retain early career researchers who are wanting to establish a career in MND translational research and become MND research leaders of the future. The intention is to bridge the pre-fellowship funding gap providing the opportunity to obtain the pilot data required for securing a fellowship.

The scheme provides 12-18 months of "pump priming" funds to non-clinical and clinical researchers. It also forms part of the objectives of the virtual MND Research Institute. 

Application deadline: 31 March 2023

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Please note: While MND Association are providing the funding for these Pre-Fellowships, MND Scotland will be administering this funding call. Please ensure all queries and completed applications are sent to prefellowships@mndscotland.org.uk.

The Aisling Burnand Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship aims to support talented researchers, who have taken a career break, to return to research.  Applications are invited for the three-year part-time Fellowship focusing on Motor Neuron Disease or Chronic respiratory infections.

Deadline: 1 May 2023 

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