Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant For All (AARGA) Program
Funding Amount
US $70,000 - US $200,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
The Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant For All (AARGA) Program supports early-career investigators in their first seven years as independent researchers. This grant aims to fund projects that develop preliminary data and test new hypotheses in Alzheimer’s and related dementia research. Areas of interest include disease mechanisms, biomarker development, and health equity. Applications are welcome from both U.S. and international researchers, fostering innovation and collaboration in the fight against dementia.
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Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant For All (AARGA) Program
The Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant For All (AARGA) program aims to fund early-career investigators who have been in the position of an Assistant Professor or the equivalent for no more than seven years. The purpose of this program is to provide newly independent investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures and to develop hypotheses. The intent is to support early-career development of newly independent researchers / clinicians that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to federal or other funding entities.
Applications are welcome from all areas of Alzheimer’s and related dementia research, including but not limited to basic science, translational studies, clinical research, and psychosocial investigations. Projects may span topics such as disease mechanisms, biomarker development, therapeutic targets, epidemiology, neuroimaging, care interventions, or health equity research.
This grant is open to U.S. and international researchers.
What Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 79
- Total given
- $73.3M
- Median grant
- $271K
- Range
- $10K–$13.29M
- By dollars: California 20%, Missouri 19%, Illinois 16%. Top recipient cities: Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Boston, MA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 42% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO
Program support
$13.29M
Alzheimer's Impact Movement · Chicago, IL
Program support
$10.59M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winstonsalem, NC
Program support
$5.95M
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA
Program support
$5.23M
University of Southern California (USC) · Los Angeles, CA
Program support
$3.18M
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Alzheimer's
- Science research
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