Funding
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Explore a comprehensive overview of funding opportunities for neurodegenerative disease research, featuring both Swiss and international sources. The platform offers detailed information on project grants, fellowships, awards, and mobility grants, while highlighting active calls to help researchers, institutes, and startups in securing vital financial resources. Key funding partners driving progress in neurodegenerative disease research are also featured.
Ongoing Calls
Personalized Approaches for Understanding, Assessing and Improving Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Research Program
SNSF Starting Grants
Category: Fellowship
Focus: Provides researchers the opportunity to lead and manage their own projects and research teams in Switzerland. This funding is open to researchers across all disciplines and topics.
Amount: Up to CHF 1 million (maximum for project funds), with potential salary coverage for those without guaranteed salaries
Eligibility: Researchers with 2 to 8 years of post-PhD experience or 5 to 12 years after medical degree, who have not yet led independent research in Switzerland.
Deadline: 15.01.2025
Sleep Contributions to Neurodegeneration (SCN) Grant Program
Category: Project Funding
Focus: Supports research investigating the biological basis of sleep disturbances in neurodegenerative diseases. Projects should aim to uncover how sleep-related mechanisms influence disease progression, risk, and clinical symptoms, as well as identify distinct sleep signatures within and across these conditions.
Amount: $200,000 to $500,000 up to 2 years
Eligibility: Researchers at academic institutions, small companies, nonprofit organizations, and small for-profit organizations.
Deadline: 29.01.2025
Alzheimer’s Association Funding Program for Global Real-World Data Platforms (ALZ-RWD)
Postdoc.Mobility (SNSF)
Category: Mobility grant
Focus: Supports researchers who have completed their doctoral studies and are looking to advance their careers by pursuing research abroad.
Amount: The amount of the fellowship depends on the cost of living in the country of residence.
Eligibility: Early career researchers (before 3 years after PhD)
Deadline: 01.02.2025
Age-Stiftung Förderantrag
Category: Project funding (German speaking part of Switzerland)
Focus: Supports diverse project initiatives that benefit older people and enable the implementation of sustainable solutions, with particular emphasis on approaches that address people in vulnerable life situations or fragile phases.
Amount: varies
Eligibility: Applied research, institutions, communities, projects
Deadline: 03.02.2025
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research
Category: Project Funding
Focus: Supports innovative research projects in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). The program targets early-career researchers and established investigators who have not yet led major projects in this field, fostering novel approaches to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and caregiving for AD/ADRD.
Amount: Up to $100,000 for max. 2 years
Eligibility: Early-career researchers and established investigators without major prior AD/ADRD funding.
Deadline: 16.02.2025
UniBe Doc.Mobility
Drug Development
Category: Project funding
Focus: Supports non-clinical studies and early-phase clinical trials that test promising pharmacological interventions and devices for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Amount: Up to $ 5'000'000
Eligibility: Universities, start ups, companies, nonprofit organisation
Deadline: 03.02.2025
Neuroimaging and CSF biomarker program
Prevention
Category: Project funding
Focus: Supports studies on cognitive symptoms linked to health conditions, comparative effectiveness research, and epidemiological investigations examining how drug use or choice influences the risk of dementia or cognitive decline.
Amount: Up to $ 5'000'000
Eligibility: Universities, start ups, companies, nonprofit organisation
Deadline: 03.02.2025
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Category: Project Funding
Focus: Supports the validation and development of innovative ideas stemming from ERC-funded projects, extending their impact beyond the original research scope
Amount: € 150,000 for 18 months
Eligibility: All Principal Investigators holding an ERC Frontier Research Grant (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, or Synergy).
Deadline: 13.03.2025
Practical project for a better life with dementia
Category: Project Funding
Focus: Supports applied projects that improve the quality of life for people living with dementia and their caregivers. It focuses on practical solutions to everyday challenges, fostering independence and promoting well-being. Projects must involve the cooperation of at least two organizations and address significant needs, such as providing lifelong support for people with dementia and their families—from symptom recognition and diagnosis to advanced stages of care, whether at home or in institutions. Additionally, the foundation prioritizes initiatives tailored to individuals with dementia from migrant backgrounds and their caregivers.
Amount: Depending on the project
Eligibility: Organizations that collaborate with at least one other organization to implement applied projects aimed at improving the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers.
Deadline: 14.03.2025
Swiss funding agencies
Vontobel Stiftung
supports researchers by funding social, scientific and dialogue-enhancing projects that focus on social welfare, nature and science, medical research and cultural initiatives. The foundation aims to support early-career researchers working at established research institutions. Funding covers salaries for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers, as well as justified material and laboratory costs. Projects initiated by other foundations are not supported.