American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation Research Infrastructure Awards

American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation Research Infrastructure Awards Deadline: August 19, 2013 Research Infrastructure Awards Program to Establish Collaborative Multicenter Research Programs: The AES and the Epilepsy Foundation are partnering to provide an opportunity for scientists to obtain support for nationwide or international networks of clinical or basic science researchers focused on understanding the causes, consequences and treatment of epilepsy. Multicenter research programs are viewed as an important venue through which investigators from around the world can establish centralized databases, common protocols, shared resources, core laboratories and exchange rapidly developing techniques and technologies. Such cooperative efforts are anticipated to hasten the speed of discovery. These funds are meant to be used to support pilot projects and hold organizational and planning sessions with representatives from each center in the planned network. These planning sessions should also be used to develop the research effort and collect results that would be used to prepare and submit a larger application for support from the Federal Government and establish the multicenter research program over the long term. Principle Investigators should be members of the Society. Awards will be based on a proposed budget and are anticipated to be up to $50,000.00 per year.  A one year no-cost extension may be requested with justification.  A sec...
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