In January 2027 the CJD Foundation may award a fellowship award for a researcher who is in the early years of their career and is working under the direct supervision of a senior investigator, healthcare, or public health professional. This award will fund a training fellowship in an established laboratory/clinical/research setting that will provide a foundation for the applicant’s independent research career.

The topic of the fellow’s training should relate to human prion disease and they should engage in prion disease related research projects during their training. Their work might focus on areas such as cellular and molecular mechanisms of prion disease, novel disease models, biomarkers, bioinformatic or other computational biology approaches, or emerging technologies to improve diagnosis, monitoring disease progression, treating symptoms or underlying disease, supporting caregivers, or providing palliative care specific to prion disease among other possibilities.