2025 ARC Award for Studying the Connectivity Between Epigenetic Factors and Metabolism to Support Biomarker or Therapeutic Development in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Now accepting applications

Award Focus Topic:

Studying the Connectivity Between Epigenetic Factors and Metabolism to Support Biomarker or Therapeutic Development in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Additional Information:

  • Proposals incorporating the development and evaluation of DNA and methylation marker candidates—without sample splitting or signal loss in cfDNA—and associating these markers with metabolic factors influencing the progression of neurodegenerative disease are encouraged.
  • Proposals that leverage multimodal data including cell analysis tools and mass spectrometry synergistically with DNA and methylation and marker candidates are encouraged
  • Applications with coinvestigators at the same institution are permitted to encourage multimodal approaches.

Institution and Applicant eligibility

  • Institution must be a degree-granting academic or a non-profit research institution.
  • Applicant must hold a tenure-tracked faculty position and be authorized to serve as a principal investigator for research contracts and principal advisor of doctoral candidates at the institution.

Award Details

  • Research projects should be scoped for a 3-year period with a total requested budget up to $500K (USD). Cash award is provided to the institution in the name of the awardee, in equal annual installments over the funding period. Awards have no deliverables and must be free of overhead or other fees.
  • ? Principal investigator awardee will be invited to visit and present research seminar at Agilent site (expenses covered).

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Submission Instructions

Email application documents to university_relations@agilent.com for official submission:

  • Cover letter (limited to 1 page)
  • Biosketch (limit to 5 pages)
  • Proposal Form (limited to this form)

Use the following syntax:

  • Filename syntax - ARC2025-NDD-[UniversityName]-[PI.Last.Name]-[First.Name].docx
  • Email subject line - ARC2025-NDD-[UniversityName]-[PI.Last.Name]-[First.Name] Submission

Completed proposals are due by July 10, 2025 (12 PM PT). Winners will be announced by November 1, 2025.

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Key Dates

  • May 9, 2025 - Call for Applications begins
  • July 10, 2025 - Submission Deadline
  • November 1, 2025 - Winner announced on ARC website