2025 DLF Prize Application Portal
The Dan Lewis Foundation for Brain Regeneration is proud to announce the 2025 DLF Prize, a $20,000 award recognizing outstanding early career scientists (2 to 5 years post-doc) conducting innovative research in neuroscience, pharmacology, or biotechnology. This prestigious prize honors researchers whose work aligns with the DLF mission to drive breakthroughs in neural regeneration and repair.
DLF Research Priorities
- Pharmacological Reactivation of Neural Repair: Research into pharmacological methods of reactivating or augmenting synaptogenesis, neurogenesis or axonal repair.
- Cell-Based Cortical Repair: Investigating the potential of
derived cortical neurons to restore function in damaged cortical regions.
- Transcriptomics of Neural Recovery: Characterizing transcriptomic profiles of cortical neurons in the recovery phase following brain injury to identify pathways that drive repair.
- Molecular Inhibitor Targeting: Advancing anti-sense oligonucleotides (ASO’s) or small-molecule therapeutics designed to downregulate inhibitors of neural regeneration in the cortex or spinal cord.
Eligibility Criteria
The successful applicant must be an early career scientist in neuroscience, molecular biology, pharmacology, or biotechnology. The “early career scientist” should be within 2-5 years post completion of their doctoral degree.
The successful applicant may be working in an academic (university or non-profit) or commercial setting (e.g., pharmaceutical or biotech company)
Expectations of the winner
- Attend, participate, and present at the next DLF Conference within the first year of the award
- Provide a write up of a completed research project or a project in progress for the DLF Newsletter within the first six months of the award
- Give the DLF permission to publicize their award in the various materials it disseminates
Timelines
- Applications due by May 1, 2025
- Applicants notified that application has been received in first week of May
- Prize winner chosen by May 31, 2025
- Notification to applicants by first week in June
Application process
The application includes four sections to be submitted through the portal:
- Identifying information regarding the applicant (this information will be used to assign each applicant an application number)
- Application questions (to be answered online and submitted through the portal)
- Required supplementary materials (uploaded through the portal)
- Optional supplementary materials (uploaded through the portal)
If you have any questions about the application or issues using the portal, please send an email to [email protected]
Application Form
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