AES Seed Grants
AES Seed Grants support established investigators pursuing new epilepsy research directions, methods, and collaborations to advance understanding, treatment, and prevention and lay groundwork for future funding.
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Funder: American Epilepsy Society
Due Dates: October 21, 2026, at 5:00 PM ET (Full proposals) | By December 18, 2026 (Notification) | January 1, 2027 (Earliest start)
Funding Amounts: Up to $20,000 for one year; direct costs only; nonrenewable
Summary: Supports established investigators pursuing new epilepsy research directions, methods, and collaborations that can lead to subsequent funding.
Key Information: At least one PI must be an AES member and epilepsy-focused academic investigator at Associate Professor level or equivalent.
Description
The American Epilepsy Society (AES) Seed Grant Program supports established investigators pursuing new and innovative directions in epilepsy research, introducing new research methods—especially cutting-edge techniques—and developing new collaborations, particularly with researchers outside traditional epilepsy research. Proposals are welcome across basic, translational, clinical, and outcomes-related epilepsy research.
The awards fund preliminary investigations that lay the groundwork for subsequent grants from government, industry, or other funding sources. Their goal is to advance the understanding, treatment, and prevention of epilepsy. Proposed work must represent a new direction that could not be initiated without seed funding, with a workplan appropriate to the award’s budget and one-year timeframe.
