{"id":41283,"date":"2022-02-12T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/?p=41283"},"modified":"2023-04-08T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:14:45","slug":"meet-the-brightfocus-foundation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/2022\/02\/12\/meet-the-brightfocus-foundation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Funding for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research: Meet the BrightFocus Foundation (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking for funding to advance your research on Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD)? Join us for this virtual event to learn about <\/span><b>BrightFocus Foundation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a leading global nonprofit funder of innovative basic, translational, and clinical research to accelerate understanding, prevention, treatment, and cures for AD and ADRD. Each year, the foundation\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research program funds nearly 150 scientific research projects worldwide led by both postdocs and independent faculty members, with a focus on early-career scientists. (This year\u2019s application deadline is November 1st.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightfocus.org\/alzheimers\/news\/brightfocus-foundation-adds-scientific-team\">Dr. Sharyn Rossi<\/a>, PhD, Director of Scientific Programs in Neuroscience at the foundation, will lead a discussion with BrightFocus Foundation grantees and\u00a0 Boston University School of Medicine faculty members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/profile\/benjamin-wolozin\/\">Ben Wolozin<\/a>, MD, PhD, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/profile\/manveen-sethi\/\">Manveen Sethi<\/a>, PhD.\u00a0<\/span><a p=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/events-updates-trainings\/past-events-resources\/brightfocus-foundation-video\/\" class=\"button\">View Video (Kerberos log-in required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for funding to advance your research on Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD)? Join us for this virtual event to learn about BrightFocus Foundation, a leading global nonprofit funder of innovative basic, translational, and clinical research to accelerate understanding, prevention, treatment, and cures for AD and ADRD. Each year, the foundation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[667,636,633,635],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42094,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41283\/revisions\/42094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}