Grants & Awards

Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D research grant)
Letter of Intent due: February 27, 2025, 5 p.m. ET
Application deadline: May 1, 2025, 5 p.m. ET

Alzheimer's Association Research Grant (AARG)
Letter of Intent due: February 27, 2025
Full application due: May 1, 2025

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Diagnostics Accelerator: Digital Biomarkers Program
Rolling applications 

Diagnostics Accelerator: Peripheral Biomarkers Program
Rolling applications

Therapeutics Funding: Drug Development RFP
Letter of Intent due: February 3, 2025
Invited full proposal due: April 7, 2025

Therapeutics Funding: Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker RFP 
Letter of Intent due: February 3, 2025
Invited full proposal due: April 7, 2025

Therapeutics Funding: Prevention RFP
Letter of Intent due: February 3, 2025
Invited full proposal due: April 7, 2025

Brain & Behaviour 
BBRF Young Investigator Grants
Applications due: March 12, 2025

Brain Canada
Call for Collaborative Research Projects on the Brain
Letter of Intent due: May 21, 2025
Full application due: May 28, 2025

2024 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research
Letter of Intent: December 2, 2024
Invited full applications: March 14, 2025

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Operating Grant : Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) 2025
Pre-proposal due: March 4, 2025
Full proposal due: June 24, 2025

Project Grant Program- Spring 2025
Application due: March 5, 2025 20:00 ET

Heart and Stroke Foundation
Personnel Awards for Black Scholars
Competition closes March 20, 2025

Personnel Awards for Indigenous Scholars
Competition closes March 20, 2025

National Institutes of Health (US)- National Institute on Aging (Open to Foreign Applications/Organizations)
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Two more application cycles in 2025, application deadlines: June 16 and October 16, 2025 

Analytical and Clinical Validation of Biomarkers for Alzheimers Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Applications due October 5, 2025

New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Two more application cycles in 2025, application deadlines: June 16 and October 16, 2025

New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Two more application cycles in 2025, application deadlines: June 5 and October 5, 2025

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R21 Clinical Trial Optional): Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant
Three more application cycles in 2025, application deadlines: March 11, June 16, and October 16, 2025

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional): Research Project Grant
Three more application cycles in 2025, application deadlines: March 11, June 5, and October 5, 2025

Translational Bioinformatics and Experimental Approaches to Advance Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy Development for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Open for submissions May 9, 2025

Ontario Brain Institute
Neurotech Entrepreneurship to Validate Emerging Innovations (NERVE) Program
Applications due April 20, 2025

University of Toronto
University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Academic Scholar Awards 
Full application due: February 28, 2025, 5 PM 

Weston Family Foundation
Rapid Response 2025 Program
Program information session: February 11, 2025 at 1pm ET – Register Here
Letter of Intent due: March 18, 2025, at 2pm ET