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 have advanced to become leaders in the NF research and clinical communities. The main function of the YIA program has been to serve as a ‘seeding mechanism’ for researchers to secure larger grants, such as from the NIH and CDMRP NFRP.
The YIA mechanism supports basic and translational research towards –
- Understanding cellular, genetic, and molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of NF1 and all types of schwannomatosis (SWN) including NF2-related schwannomatosis
- Identifying and/or testing novel therapeutic targets*
- Testing candidate therapeutics*
- Analysis of natural history of NF
The YIA Letter of Intent form can be accessed by logging into Proposal Central as an Applicant, clicking on Grants Opportunities, and either filtering by Children’s Tumor Foundation or typing in the foundation name in the Search box.
More information: here.
Deadline: 2nd December 2025.