Research funder · United States
BrightFocus Foundation
Non-profit organization in the USA
- Grants since 2016
- 717
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- $108M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 1 862
- Funded works, all time
- 3 290
Grants
2022–2025 · fellowship · National Glaucoma Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Effect of ocular hypertension on synaptic function and plasticity in glaucomatous neurodegeneration
Prabhavathi Maddineni · University of Missouri
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sleep restoration, microglia, and Alzheimer's disease
Qiuchen Zhao · Massachusetts General Hospital
2022–2026 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Driving brain rhythms to reduce chronic stress-induced synaptic loss and Alzheimer's disease risk
Annabelle Singer · Georgia Institute of Technology
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Modeling brain-predicted age in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease
Peter Millar · Washington University in St. Louis
2022–2025 · research · Macular Degeneration Research: New Investigator Grant
Light-dependent Constriction of Choroid Vasculature
Albert Gonzales · University of Nevada, Reno
2022–2025 · research · National Glaucoma Research: Standard
Exploring the role of the APBB2 risk variant in glaucoma with human induced pluripotent stem cells
Jason Meyer · Indiana University School of Medicine
2022–2026 · research · Macular Degeneration Research: New Investigator Grant
The role of MYRF in transcriptional regulation of retinal pigment epithelial maintenance
Lev Prasov · University of Michigan
2022–2026 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Towards nanoscale blueprints of early molecular, synaptic and physiological changes in Alzheimer's Disease
Uri Ashery · Tel Aviv University
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Understanding how human brain vascular cells mediate genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease
Andrew Yang · University of California, San Francisco
2022–2026 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Functional and molecular mapping of vulnerable GABAergic synapses in early-stage AD pathophysiology
Samuel Barnes · Imperial College London
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Impairments in sleep and proteostasis accelerate Alzheimer's disease progression
Christopher Morrone · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
2022–2025 · fellowship · Macular Degeneration Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Disinhibition of Fatty Acid Oxidation to Dispose of Drusen Components
Daniel Hass · University of Washington
2022–2024 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
CD98hc brain shuttle for efficient delivery of a neuroprotective TrkB agonist antibody in Alzheimer's disease
Peter Tessier · University of Michigan
2022–2025 · fellowship · Macular Degeneration Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Molecular and Machine Learning Approaches to Non-Coding Risk in Age-related Macular Degeneration
Leah Vandenbosch · Seattle Children's Hospital
2022–2025 · research · National Glaucoma Research: Standard
Specifically targeting glutamate release to tackle retinal ganglion cell degeneration in Glaucoma
Marco Feligioni · European Brain Research Institute (italy)
2022–2024 · fellowship · Macular Degeneration Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nanoceria-Coated Melanin Nanoparticles as a Novel Antioxidant for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Yongsu Kwon · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022–2025 · research · Macular Degeneration Research: Innovative Research
Early life metabolic events influence Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Przemyslaw Sapieha · Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
DEVELOPMENT OF EPICHAPEROME IMAGING PROBES FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Sahil Sharma · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2022–2025 · research · National Glaucoma Research: Standard
Harnessing intercellular mitochondrial transfer in human-derived retinal cells to treat glaucoma
Michael Risner · Oakland University
2022–2026 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Understanding the impact of midlife cardiovascular risk factors & subclinical atherosclerosis on brain´s health: a role on Alzheimer´s pathology
Marta Cortes-Canteli · Spanish National Centre For Cardiovascular Research (spain)
2022–2025 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Identifying circuit drivers of early AD pathogenesis
Kevin Beier · University of California, Irvine
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
The effect of hypertension on neurovascular dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease progression during midlife
Christian Crouzet · University of California, Irvine
2022–2026 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Dissecting how PTMs regulate tau aggregate strain formation
Sue-Ann Mok · University of Alberta
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Role of perivascular macrophages in ApoE4-induced neurovascular dysfunction
Antoine Anfray · Weill Cornell Medicine
2022–2027 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Mitochondrial DNA oxidative damages and microglial activation in Alzheimer's Disease
Lan Guo · Wake Forest University Health Sciences
2022–2025 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Targeting excitatory neural circuits in Alzheimer's disease
Carlos Saura · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Harnessing spatial transcriptomics to investigate the intersection of senescence and inflammation in neurodegeneration
Violeta Duran Laforet · University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Investigating how white matter integrity and tauopathy underpin cognitive decline in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease.
Nicole Mckay · Washington University in St. Louis
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Understanding the impact of TREM2 T96K mutation in the ligand-binding domain on Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis
Hoang Le · Massachusetts General Hospital
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Investigating TDP-43 biology in Alzheimer’s Disease and LATE: impact on the clinical diagnosis
Sandra O. Tomé · KU Leuven
2022–2026 · fellowship · National Glaucoma Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Investigating novel genetic counseling and communication strategies for polygenic risk testing in glaucoma
Emmanuelle Souzeau · Flinders University Of South Australia (australia)
2022–2025 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Understanding neural circuit mechanisms for associative memory impairment in APP-KI mice
Tatsuki Nakagawa · University of California, Irvine
2022–2024 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
TDP-43-dependent truncation of Stathmin-2 mRNA as a novel target in Alzheimer's disease
Ana Rita Quadros · Massachusetts General Hospital
2021–2023 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Other
LOU rat as a model of cognitive resilience in the field of Alzheimer’s disease
Marianne Leger · Normandie University Of Caen
2021–2024 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Standard
Targeting E3 ligase IDOL to mitigate ApoE4-mediated tau pathology
Jie Gao · The Ohio State University
2021–2024 · research · National Glaucoma Research: Standard
Deciphering the local effect of glaucoma risk factors on axonal mitoproteome
Sidney Gospe · Duke University
2021–2026 · research · Macular Degeneration Research: Other
Functional characterization of genetic regulatory effects of AMD risk variants
Rinki Ratnapriya · Baylor College of Medicine
2021–2023 · fellowship · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Systems Genetics Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Related Sleep Disruption
Niran Hadad · Jackson Laboratory
2021–2023 · research · National Glaucoma Research: Standard
Sensing elevated intra-ocular pressure in mouse models of glaucoma: potential role of Piezos channels
Michael Reber · University Health Network
2021–2023 · research · Alzheimer's Disease Research: Bold Ideas initiatives
Pre-competitive Analytical Validation of SV2A PET as a Biomarker of Synaptic Density (SV2A PET Project)
Sjoerd Finnema · Foundation for the National Institutes of Health