Catalyst Awards support researchers with $500,000 over two years in developing innovative approaches to uncover new insights into cognitive health and the prevention or reversal of neurodegenerative disease.
We also offer Catalyst Momentum Awards, which are an opportunity for current awardees to extend their project funding for an additional two years. These awards aim to provide continued momentum to existing projects and further advance the impactful work begun under the Catalyst Award program.
“After decades of darkness and only a few clues, the discovery of clear genetic risk factors and biomarkers [of neurodegeneration] now allows us to formulate compelling hypotheses. Thanks to this Catalyst Award from the Knight Initiative, our team is now able to shed light on key mechanisms of how the brain fends off ongoing pressures to decline.”
“After decades of darkness and only a few clues, the discovery of clear genetic risk factors and biomarkers [of neurodegeneration] now allows us to formulate compelling hypotheses. Thanks to this Catalyst Award from the Knight Initiative, our team is now able to shed light on key mechanisms of how the brain fends off ongoing pressures to decline.”
Catalyst Momentum Award projects
Catalyst Award projects
Predicting and promoting resilient brain aging trajectories
Investigating severe traumatic brain injury using a novel human CSF cell-free mRNA gene panel
Defining the Subcellular Biology of Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration
Sleep circuits in neurodegenerative disease and aging
Catalyst Award Applications are currently closed
See the resources below for past application details.