Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (FDT): Creative Computational Approaches to Accelerate Drug Discovery for the Treatment and Prevention of Dementia -- Letter of Intent

This program is requesting proposals for innovative computational approaches to map disease and predict the efficacy of drugs to treat and prevent dementia. A variety of approaches and outcomes will be considered. Priority will be given to interdisciplinary teams composed of computational and biology/disease experts, and to proposals that use and perhaps develop open-access databases of biological and clinical data. The winning submission(s) will present the most scientifically compelling, novel, and viable program to accelerate drug discovery.

1. Novel computational approaches to modeling drug efficacy on a key therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease.

2. Novel computational approaches to model disease risk and progression based on risk factors.

Funding: up to $150,000 in funding is available for each grant for one-year duration, with the possibility of follow-on funding for computational or experimental research.

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