Amount: $45,000. About: FRAXA Research Foundation offers FRAXA Fellowships, an annual competition, with a top prize of $45,000, to encourage research aimed at finding a specific treatment for fragile X syndrome. Applicants must be application per lab group, and current grantees are not eligible, non-transferable (only good for specified postdoc, and institution), must demonstrate adequate overall funding to pursue the project, successful applicants for these grants will likely be working in established labs which have funding for supplies and any required animal handling cost, If the applicant proposes to work with a particular Fragile X model (mouse, drosophila, neural stem cells, etc.) he should demonstrate that this model system is already established in-house.
Eligible Grade Levels: Graduate Student
Eligible Majors: All Majors
Residency Requirement: No residency requirement
Minimum GPA: No GPA requirement
Deadline: February 1. Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor’s website for up-to-date deadlines.