George and Cleary Simpson Award for Emerging Researchers
Forecasted
George and Cleary Simpson Award for Emerging Researchers supports early-career researchers pursuing innovative research within an annual focus area to advance treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
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Funder: CMT Research Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2026 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $75,000; one early-career researcher per cycle
Summary: Supports innovative research within an annually selected focus area to advance treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Key Information: Applicants must be early-career researchers addressing the cycle’s designated research focus.
Description
The George and Cleary Simpson Award for Emerging Researchers is administered by the CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF) to support research advancing treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). Each cycle centers on a scientific challenge, topic, or priority selected annually by the foundation’s research and drug development team and aligned with its scientific priorities.
Within that designated focus, the award encourages bold, creative, and innovative approaches. Collaboration between research groups, and between academic and industry investigators, is strongly encouraged. The program supports CMTRF’s broader mission of funding promising research that leads to therapeutic development for all types of CMT, including translational research and discovery research with a clear link to accelerating treatments and cures.
