Funding Opportunities

Opportunity Type: Education and Career Development

Goal: To facilitate career development for junior investigators interested in clinical and translational research relating to dystonia, or to provide a mechanism for more senior investigators from other fields to get involved in dystonia research.

Sponsor: Dystonia Medical Research Foundation | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Eligibility Criteria: Applications must focus on dystonia. Applicants who are not part of the Dystonia Coalition may also apply. US citizenship and affiliation with a US institution are not required.

Application Due Date: 2023-04-01

Term: One Year

Opportunity Type: Pilot Grants and Other Requests for Applications

Goal: To foster the most promising clinical and translational studies of direct relevance to dystonia.

Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Eligibility Criteria: Applications must focus on clinical or translational projects with direct relevance to dystonia. The Dystonia Coalition is particularly interested in applicants focusing on projects that exploit data and/or resources already collected by the Dystonia Coalition and/or projects that encourage collaborations by involving different centers of the Dystonia Coalition, although independent projects related to dystonia are also welcome.

Application Due Date: 2023-04-01

Term: One Year