Funding, News and Announcements

The fundamental aim of the Klarman Family Foundation's grants program is to understand the biology underlying the psychiatric disease anorexia nervosa, with the goal of accelerating progress toward prevention and treatment. The amount/duration is up to $750,000 over 1 - 3 years.

What we are looking for:

• Proposals that directly investigate the underlying biology of anorexia nervosa, and the questions of how and why it develops and persists
• Human and animal studies that are directly relevant to the disease, and also studies addressing its genetic basis, building on results from a recently published genome-wide association study of ~ 17,000 cases including nearly 13,000 cases from the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI)

Who is eligible:

• Researchers who hold a faculty appointment at a nonprofit academic, medical or research institution in the United States, Canada or Israel
• Researchers with a strong track record in another field who can bring a new approach to anorexia nervosa research are also encouraged to apply

Research topics NOT within the scientific scope of this program:

• Obesity
• Normal feeding behavior and/or negative energy balance 
• Behavioral therapy 
• Medical complications of eating disorders
• Clinical trials 
• Sickness-induced anorexia or other types of anorexia distinct from the psychiatric disease anorexia nervosa 

Deadline Information

Internal Application: December 2, 2019 at 4:30pm. Contact Shelley.Brown@dal.ca.

Agency Application: December 9, 2019