The Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award funds promising early-career faculty conducting clinical, pre-clinical, or basic research that advances understanding or treatment of Parkinson's disease. It provides $300,000 over three years, including up to 40% salary support, to help recipients secure independent funding such as NIH R01. Applicants must be tenure-track junior faculty at U.S. or Canadian institutions with NIH new investigator status and institutional support.
Open to junior faculty at U.S. and Canadian institutions with PhD, MD, or equivalent, meeting NIH new investigator status. Applicants must be tenure-track or intend to be by award start and provide a department chair letter of support. Co-investigators not allowed.