Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/call-for-submissions-for-round-3-of-the-impetus-grants-10m-for-aging-research-proposals/
The Impetus Grants project has for the past few years aimed to make rapid, low-overhead philanthropic grants to researchers in order to accelerate aging research. While choosing to funding specific proposals, the organizers appear to keep the bigger picture in mind. One might not agree with their chosen directions, but they do try to support work that would otherwise not be supported. The recent call for submissions for the August 2023 $10 million round of grants starts out on a contrarian note, in search of projects that can stress test existing directions and theories in the field, and ends with a thought on accelerating translation of preclinical programs into animal studies.
For my part, I’d say that the best approach to accelerate the field is to fund as many different approaches as possible to the point at which they can leave academia to raise venture…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/call-for-submissions-for-round-3-of-the-impetus-grants-10m-for-aging-research-proposals/
The Impetus Grants project has for the past few years aimed to make rapid, low-overhead philanthropic grants to researchers in order to accelerate aging research. While choosing to funding specific proposals, the organizers appear to keep the bigger picture in mind. One might not agree with their chosen directions, but they do try to support work that would otherwise not be supported. The recent call for submissions for the August 2023 $10 million round of grants starts out on a contrarian note, in search of projects that can stress test existing directions and theories in the field, and ends with a thought on accelerating translation of preclinical programs into animal studies.
For my part, I’d say that the best approach to accelerate the field is to fund as many different approaches as possible to the point at which they can leave academia to raise venture…
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