The Pre-Application to the 2018 Young Investigator Award will be available December 11, 2017.
Please ensure to review the eligibility guidelines before applying
For further information on Young Investigator Awards, please click HERE.
Pre-Applications are due Monday, January 8, 2018 at 5pm EST.
We look forward to receiving your applications!
CTF’s longest running program, the YIA provides two-year funding, commensurate with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to young scientists early in their careers, bringing them into the NF field and helping to establish them as independent investigators. A number of YIAs have made significant research findings and notable publications through this program. In addition, the YIA program has been a ‘seeding mechanism’ for researchers and their mentors, who could showcase their Foundation-funded research to secure larger grants from the NIH and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program – Neurofibromatosis Research Program (CDMRP-NFRP). CTF’s seeding of the NF field with new talent has been hailed as a key reason for the rapid growth of NF research in recent years.
