Friedrich Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) – Postdoctoral Fellowship
FARA offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship to support young investigators in the FA biomedical research space. For this application type, the PI of the grant proposal may be either the trainee or the trainee’s faculty advisor; however, both the trainee and advisor must be named in the application.
Eligible applicants are postdoctoral trainees with fewer than 6 years working as a postdoctoral trainee, accounting for career disruptions, and fewer than 4 years working in an FA lab as a postdoctoral trainee. Applicants are required to submit a personal statement describing their current position and plans for the future as it relates to FA research, with a description of career goals and how the proposed research and research environment will favor achieving those goals. A mentoring plan developed jointly by the junior investigator and mentor(s), as well as letters of support from all mentors are also required. The only allowable budget item is the trainee salary/stipend (plus applicable fringe benefits), which must not exceed the appropriate NIH stipend level. Postdoctoral trainees should provide a minimum 75% effort contributed to the design, writing and implementation of the proposed work.