The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience works to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain and behavior can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. To that end, the Endowment Fund supports innovative research through three competitive annual awards.
Each in a different way, the three programs seek out investigators whose research shows promise in bringing society closer to preventions, treatments, and cures for many devastating diseases. Research supported by the Endowment Fund has furthered understanding of such impairments as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and many others.
The human brain represents one of the great frontiers in modern science. Understanding the brain is increasingly a subject for the most creative scientific minds across a range of disciplines.
The awards are:
Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards: for scientists working to apply the knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders that affect memory or cognition. (Formerly the Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Awards.)
Scholar Awards: for scientists in the early stages of setting up their independent laboratories and beginning to focus on disorders of learning and memory.
Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards: for scientists developing new technologies or using technology in new ways to expand neuroscience research.
Leadership
A board made up of eminent neuroscientists directs the Endowment Fund, with administrative support from The McKnight Foundation. The board selects awardees on the basis of recommendations by selection committees, which also are made up of prominent scientists.
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