Fellowships & Early Career Awards

The Parkinson's Foundation offers several types of grants to encourage young scientists, clinicians and students to devote their talents to the study of Parkinson's disease (PD):
- Summer Student Fellowships: fellowships for 10 weeks of clinical or laboratory work with a $4,000 award.
- Visiting Scholar Awards: $4,000 stipend to support the travel and housing of the Scholar while visiting a host laboratory to learn new techniques that will benefit their Parkinson's research.
- Postdoctoral Fellowships: two-year fellowships for young scientists fresh from their PhD training or neurology residencies.
- Launch Award: four-year, two-stage award for outstanding postdoctoral researchers that will enable them to complete needed mentored training and transition promptly to independent research careers in PD.
- Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award: one-year award designed to foster clinical research into any aspect of PD conducted by young investigators with MD degrees who are under-represented in current research. Jointly supported by the Parkinson’s Foundation and the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (IAPRD).
- Parkinson's Foundation-ABF Clinical Research Training Scholarship: two-year award that enables PD research training for outstanding clinician-scientists who are members of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Funded by the Parkinson's Foundation and the American Brain Foundation in collaboration with AAN.
Summer Student Fellowships
Visiting Scholar Awards
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Launch Award
Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award
Parkinson's Foundation-ABF Clinical Research Training Scholarship
Award questions?
Please contact Grants@parkinson.org with any questions regarding our research grants and awards.
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