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BrightFocus likes to fund early-career researchers anywhere in the world to do high-risk projects
Top tips
- For clinical trial applications, consider a proposal that extends a larger piece of work.
- Innovative ideas from early-career researchers are particularly welcome.
- No idea is too crazy if it has pilot data.
The BrightFocus Foundation, based in Clarksburg, Maryland, offers grants of up to $100,000 (£81,000) a year for research that helps prevent, treat or cure Alzheimer’s disease, glaucoma and macular degeneration. Main programme success rates are 20.7 per cent for Alzheimer’s, 16.5 per cent for glaucoma and 34.9 per cent for macular degeneration.
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