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Description: Funding priority is given to projects that improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.
The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving common, everyday problems or emerging issues within our defined focus area. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. The board is particularly looking for practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable time frame to clinical application.
Description: This Award was created to support research projects with strong potential to develop pioneering discoveries for understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline. Relevant proposals from any branch of biology are eligible. This funding program specifically seeks to include principal investigators who may not have previously worked in the area of aging, but whose research and expertise are applicable to understanding the biological mechanisms of normal aging and its relevance to age-associated health decline.
Projects that characterize aging as a disease, or that focus on specific diseases are discouraged unless the research plan provides direct connections to the biology of aging and/or the prospect of a translational discovery relevant to improving human health span.
Description: The Patient Safety Prize invites proposals for innovative solutions that improve patient safety through community-informed solutions in three key areas: empowering health literacy for safer patient care, innovating to eliminate medication errors, and promoting fall-free futures. We welcome applications from teams that include multiple organizations and reflect cross-sector partnerships.
Description: The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is seeking proposals for the 2026 request for applications (RFA) to support demonstration projects to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative strategies for enhancing fairness in clinical assessment in medical and nursing education programs. Funded projects will serve as exemplars for how schools of medicine and nursing can implement strategies that center the purpose of assessment, which is to ensure that everyone who graduates is fully prepared to provide the highest standard of care to their patients.
This RFA will build upon the consensus recommendations that emanated from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s 2022 conference entitled Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment.
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Description: The Dana Foundation is currently accepting letters of interest (LOIs) for pilot projects in Neuroscience & Society. Neuroscience and society is the interdisciplinary study of how neuroscience informs and reflects society, and practical work to put these ideas into action. Neuroscience and society includes fields where neuroscience interfaces with the world, such as ethics, law, humanities, medicine, arts, social sciences, policy, education, journalism, and public engagement. This list is meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive. Other disciplines may fall within the purview of neuroscience and society.
Description: The Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports innovative research by early career investigators. The research should have relevance for understanding the mechanisms underlying neurological and behavioral disorders, that may lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. We recognize, however, that some of the most important contributions toward disease cures can come from basic research, without an immediate understanding of their relationship to disease, so we also support basic research.
Description: These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to catalyze research discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics.
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