Friday, September 2, 2011

Coming Soon: Brookdale Foundation Announcement, 2012 Leadership in Aging Fellowship

The Brookdale Foundation's announcement of its 2012 Leadership in Aging Fellowship program is expected soon.  The limit is one proposal per institution.  The fellowship provides two years of support to junior academics to focus on a project that will help establish them in an area of aging research. The Fellowship is open to a broad range of disciplines including, but not limited to, medical, biological and basic sciences, nursing, social sciences, the arts and humanities.

Award:  $250,000 over two years

Important dates:
Notification of interest in applying:  Due by 5 p.m. September 7 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu .
Internal preproposal submission: Due by 5 p.m. September 29 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu .
Estimated internal review completion date:  October 4
Brookdale Foundation application due date:  Anticipated to be November 1

For more information, see http://ncsu.edu/research/gateway/rd/ltdsub/brookdale-foundation-leadership-in-aging-fellowship .  The 2011 application is no longer available for reference, but the 2011 Guidelines are available.  Traditionally, the guidelines have changed very little, if at all, over recent years.