Children’s Tumor Foundation

The Young Investigator Award is CTF’s longest running award program, and provides two-year salary support to early career NF researchers, such as senior doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers, to help them get established as independent NF investigators. Since its inception, several YIAs have made groundbreaking research findings and notable publications through this program, and many […]

The Children’s Tumor Foundation invites letters of intent for its young investigator award. This enables early-career scientists to get established as independent investigators in the field of neurofibromatosis and to secure them larger grants from other agencies. The programme supports basic and translational research including: •understanding cellular, genetic, and molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of