The Zenith Fellows Award supports established investigators conducting innovative research on early detection, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, or prevention of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. It funds basic biology or clinical investigations but excludes clinical trials. The program encourages proposals that challenge prevailing approaches or fall outside traditional funding mechanisms. Applicants must be Associate Professors or above with significant prior funding and research achievements.
Applicants must be Associate Professors or above with major peer-reviewed multi-year external grant support as principal investigator, an independent lab, and publication record. Previous Zenith Fellows Award recipients and certain government and for-profit institutions are ineligible.
