Research Funding

The goal of this program is to promote the continued development of newly trained clinician-researchers (MDs or PhDs, or equivalent), or experienced clinician-researchers new to LBD, into world-class LBD investigators through mentorship. The program focuses on the mentorship of young or experienced investigators committed to clinical research in the Lewy body dementia arena by seasoned, established LBD investigators. This award is meant to offer a supplement to support mentorship on an otherwise funded project and is not meant to support the project itself.

While there are several courses and conferences that an early-stage investigator can participate in, there is no substitute for a personal mentor-mentee relationship, in which the mentor can review the mentee’s proposed initiative(s), meet with the mentee’s team, and provide one-on-one, in-person advice.

Under this request for applications, LBDA intends to fund up to four awards.

Full details are available on the Request for Applications.