The Microbial Pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease Grant from the IDSA Foundation provides funding to identify a potential microbial link to Alzheimer’s disease. All awards must be narrowly focused on elucidating the possible roles of infectious agents in the causation of Alzheimer’s disease. Applications are open to researchers worldwide.
The grant awards will support innovative research including basic, clinical, and/or non-traditional approaches. This includes proposals that span the breadth of the microbial world including bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and microbial synergy among other possibilities.
Objectives
This funding is designed to accomplish the following objectives:
1. To obtain evidence that an infectious agent or microbial community is correlated to
Alzheimer’s disease.
2. To promote novel research in the field of microbial triggers for Alzheimer’s disease.
3. To build the pathogenic-Alzheimer’s disease research community.
Funding Priorities
This year funding will be focused on expanding on research that has shown promise in the field of pathogenic causes of Alzheimer’s Disease. Funding will be given to existing researchers to further their work as well as provide support for alignment between established researchers to foster collaborative discovery.
These collaborations will link researchers working on similar or complimentary aspects of the disease (i.e., brain and gut microbiome, or researchers examining different aspects of the herpes connection to AD, etc.).
The grants provide up to 100,000 USD for up to 3 years.
Applications close January 10, 2025.