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If you have questions about giving to the CNLM, please contact Cece Martz, Center Administrator at memory@uci.edu
Director's Excellence Program
The Director's Excellence Program supports the Director's highest priority projects including purchase of new cutting edge equipment, funding innovative research projects and recruiting the world's brightest neuroscientists.
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High Impact Research Program
The High Impact Research Program supports innovative high-risk, high-reward research. This is the kind of research that has the potential to accelerate transformational, rather than incremental discovery.
Young Scholars Program
The Young Scholars Program supports the students of the CNLM. The funds supports the Irvine Summer Institute in Neuroscience and other training programs in the CNLM, as well as awards given each year to support research and training of the next generation of neuroscientists.
Community Outreach Fund
The Community Outreach Fund supports programs including the Irvine Brain Bee, public lectures at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, Brain Awareness Week activities, the Southern California Youth Neuroscience Association, the CNLM Ambassador Program, as well as scholarships for the summer Brain Camp.
Women's Brain Health Fund
Support for the CNLM Women's Brain Health Fund helps fuel innovative research and accelerate discoveries that lead to earlier diagnosis, better prevention, and more effective treatments for all.
Alzheimer’s Discovery and Innovation Fund
The Alzheimer’s Discovery and Innovation Fund supports the most innovative discoveries of mechanisms, biomarkers and new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, including the BEACoN Collaboratory, and other related studies.