CurePSP Student Fellowships

CurePSP Student Fellowships support students and trainees conducting summer research projects focused on PSP or CBD. The goal of these programs is to encourage trainees to pursue research in this field in an effort to make PSP and CBD a long-term area of research interest and to further our understanding of these diseases.

Applications for the CurePSP Student Fellowship Program are now open. Application instructions and full eligibility guidelines for the Urso Student Fellowship and the Jim Atwood Neuroscience Student Fellowship are available here. Applications must be submitted through ProposalCentral by January 31, 2024, at 5pm ET. 

 

URSO Student Fellowship

The URSO Student Fellowship supports students conducting summer research projects focused on PSP, CBD, and related diseases. This program is supported by the Paul and Ruth Urso Memorial Research Fund. The goal of this fellowship program is to encourage students at all post-secondary levels to pursue research in this field in the hope of making PSP or CBD a long-term area of research interest. Projects may be in basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological aspects of PSP and CBD.

Program Eligibility

Undergraduate, graduate, and medical students are eligible – as well as medical residents and clinical fellows. Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible for this program. The research must be performed under the supervision of a faculty mentor with expertise in the field. Funds may be budgeted to cover the applicant’s stipend and research related expenses. Grantees will present the results of their research at the Annual CurePSP Research Symposium in the fall (typically mid-November) following their summer project. CurePSP will provide awardees travel and lodging expenses for the Symposium.

Application Instructions

 

Currently Funded Urso Grants

Mentor: Naomi Visanji

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: a disease specific mouse tauopathy model 

Mentor: Stewart Clark

Investigation of the role of non-cholinergic PPTg neurons in a model of PSP 

Mentor: Jonathan Lin

Testing Anti-Tau Properties of Integrated Stress Response Boosters In Vivo 


The Jim Atwood Neuroscience Student Fellowship

The Jim Atwood Neuroscience Student Fellowship Endowment supports undergraduate students conducting summer research projects focused on PSP or CBD. The goal of this fellowship program is to encourage undergraduate students to pursue research in this field in an effort to make PSP and CBD a long-term area of research interest and to further our understanding of these diseases. In addition, their important work will aid in increasing the awareness of these rare neurodegenerative diseases with the end goal of a cure. Fellowship projects should have a neuroscience focus and may be in basic, translational, or clinical aspects of PSP or CBD.

Program Eligibility

Undergraduate students are eligible. The research must be performed under the supervision of a faculty mentor with expertise in the field. Funds may be budgeted to cover the applicant’s stipend and research related expenses. Grantees will present the results of their research at the Annual CurePSP Research Symposium in the fall (typically mid-November) following their summer project. CurePSP will provide awardees travel and lodging expenses for the Symposium.

Application Instructions

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