WAM Research Grant
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Deadline
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Grant Type
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- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- May 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Multiple award categories including Young Investigator Award, Established Investigator Award, and MOSH Award
Other requirements
- Researchers at leading academic institutions studying women and Alzheimer's disease
Overview
Geographic Scope: United States (48 studies funded across 17 leading institutions as of 2024)
Focus Areas:
- Sex-specific research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
- Women-focused brain health research
- Studies examining why women are twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer's disease
- Research on immune mechanisms, sleep disruption, genetic risk factors, lifestyle interventions, and other factors affecting women's Alzheimer's risk
Key Details:
- Total Funding Awarded (as of 2024): $5.35 million to 48 studies
- Impact: Grantees have secured an additional $83 million in government and foundation funding
- Founded: 2016
- Institution: Cleveland Clinic
- Founder: Maria Shriver
Eligibility:
- Researchers at leading academic institutions studying women and Alzheimer's disease
- Multiple award categories including Young Investigator Award, Established Investigator Award, and MOSH Award
What They Fund:
- Seed grants for early-stage research
- Comprehensive lifestyle intervention studies
- Biomarker discovery research
- Sex-specific genetic and mechanistic studies
- AI and data science approaches to understanding Alzheimer's disease
- Sleep and circadian rhythm research
- Immune response research
- Microbial metabolite research
Contact Information:
- Website: thewomensalzheimersmovement.org
- Affiliated with: Cleveland Clinic
What A Woman's Nation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2023
- Grants in 2023
- 1
- Total given
- $159K
- Median grant
- $159K
- By dollars: Ohio 100%. Top recipient cities: Cleveland, OH.
Example grants
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Cleveland, OH
Research grant in liquidation of a woman's nation
$159K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Women
- Alzheimer's
- Science research
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