The Live Like Lou Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are open for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The Live Like Lou Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is intended to encourage and expand the number of investigators conducting innovative neurodegenerative disease research aimed at finding treatments or cures for ALS. The 2026 program will award two early-career scientists interested in ALS at an academic institution or equivalent research environment. View the application and requested materials here.

Funding and Eligibility

• Applicants must be in their first four years of postdoctoral training.
• This award must be administered through the students’ university. Payment will be made to the university, not directly to the student.
• Indirect costs to the institution are not allowed
• Up to $75,000 per year for up to two years beginning September 2026. Funds may be used to assist in underwriting salary expenses.
• Non-US citizens and institutions are eligible for funding.

The application closes on Monday, July 13.

Apply here.

Please contact info@livelikelou.org with any questions.

Read about past Live Like Lou Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients:

• 2025—Dr. Tereza Filipi, Research Centre of the University of Montreal Hospital (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC; and Dr. Larissa Traxler
  University of California, San Diego‍
• 2024—Gregory Mohl, PhD, University of California at San Francisco; and Carlo Scialo, MD, PhD, University of Zurich‍
• 2023—Alexander Cammack, PhD, University College London; and Yifu Han, PhD, University of Southern California ‍
• 2022—Daryl Fields, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

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