Author: Jo Anne Nakagawa
Research Grant Opportunities for Early-Stage Investigators
November 1, 2024

♦ UPDATE (4.25.25): The submission deadlines for the PERF®-CNS Research Grants have closed for the 2025 cycle. Information about the 2026 Research Grant Cycle will be posted later this year.♦
Are you an early-stage investigator in pediatric neurology? PERF® in partnership with the Child Neurology Society (CNS) offers three grant opportunities to early-stage investigators conducting […]
2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award
August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Andra Dingman, MD, PhD, the first recipient of the 2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award.
PERF® in partnership with the Child Neurology Society (CNS) inaugurated the PERF®-CNS Bridge Grant Program to retain child neurology researchers. This program is designed to provide bridge funding to promising child neurology researchers who are applying for their first independent National Institutes […]
2024 PERF® -CNS Career Development Awards
August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Viola Caretti, MD, PhD recipient of the PERF®-CNS Elterman Research Grant Award and Mauro Caffarelli, MD, recipient of the PERF®-CNS Shields Research Grant Award.
PERF®-CNS Elterman Research Grant Award
Dr. Caretti’s project, Decoding sex-specific neutrophil function in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy will investigate the reason for poorer outcomes among males following hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
Institution: […]