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We accept applications from emerging scientists in the Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias field. Each cohort will comprise of Scholars in different career stages including graduate/medical students, postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty.

Applications will not be accepted for both ADNI and HABS-HD programs, so please choose the program with the dataset that best suits your interests. Training, funding, and resources will be the same for both programs.

All applicants must be able to devote 50% full-time effort (FTE) to the HESP activities, their research project, and career development. Program admission is contingent upon receiving an institutional agreement letter confirming this commitment.

Required Application Materials:

Below is a list of required application materials. Your application will not be considered if you do not have all of your documentation submitted by the deadline.

• NIH Biosketch (what is this?) for you and your mentor(s)
• 2-page career development plan
• 3-page research plan*
• Letter of support from your primary mentor
• Transcripts (graduate students only)

*Your research plan must incorporate the ADNI and/or HABS-HD datasets depending on which mechanism you are applying to.

Document Format:

The format for these documents will be up to you, however we do recommend there be some synergy between all of them. You can look up the NIH instructions for a K award application and use that as a template if you wish. We highly encourage you to be specific and use clear metrics for what you think will be markers of success.

Documents should have the following characteristics:

• Single-spaced
• 8.5×11” pages with 0.5” margins
• Fonts: Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman
• Font size: 11 or 12

Please note: Citations do not count in the page limits