Two deadlines are approaching to apply for 2024 Pilot Grants from the Yale SenNet Center and the Yale Pepper Center.
The SenNet Center is offering pilot grant research support for studies to investigate senescence in development, regeneration, aging, or diseases of aging. All Yale faculty are eligible to submit proposals. Interdisciplinary investigations are encouraged.
The total funding is $50,000 and the application deadline is January 16, 2024. Awards will be announced on March 1, 2024, the date that funding commences.
Here is more information on the SenNet Center grant.
The Yale Pepper Center is soliciting letters of intent from Yale faculty for new initiatives in translational geroscience. This pilot grant program, sponsored by the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pathology, and School of Medicine, is designed to facilitate innovative and high-impact translational geroscience research and to establish/strengthen cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Investigators may request up to $75,000 for a one-year pilot project. It is expected that the award will be used to support individuals and to provide materials that will enable the development of integrated programs and generation of preliminary data. It’s anticipated that up to two awards will be made.
Letters of intent are due January 16, 2024. The invitation for full proposal issued by February 2, 2024. The due date for full application is March 18, 2024, and the earliest anticipated start date is July 1, 2024
Application materials, including a complete set of instructions, are available here.