Funder: American Epilepsy Society
Due Dates: January 20, 2027, at 5:00 PM EST (Application) | By May 31, 2027 (Notification) | July 1, 2027 (Earliest start)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 for one year, plus complimentary AES membership and Annual Meeting registration
Summary: Supports recently independent investigators conducting epilepsy research to help them compete for longer-term funding.
Key Information: Intended for recently independent investigators across basic, translational, and clinical epilepsy research.
Description
The American Epilepsy Society (AES) Junior Investigator Research Awards support research by recently independent investigators, with the goal of helping them compete successfully for subsequent longer-term support from the NIH or other sources. The awards are part of AES’s early-career funding program, which helps emerging investigators establish independent research programs and generate preliminary data, publications, and momentum for future funding.
Proposals are welcomed across basic, translational, and clinical epilepsy research. Supported areas include disease mechanisms and treatments, epidemiologic and behavioral studies, new technologies, and health services and outcomes research. AES’s broader early-career research portfolio spans all types of epilepsies, seizures, and related conditions, advancing its commitment to developing the next generation of epilepsy investigators.
