Brain Aneurysm Foundation
/OVERVIEW: This funder supports scientific research to improve early detection, treatment and technological advances for patients suffering from brain aneurysms.
IP TAKE: The Brain Aneurysm Foundation makes grants for research on detection, treatment and technological advances concerning brain aneurysms. Specific areas of interest have included translational research, advances in imaging and research on aneurysmal sabarachnoid hemorrhage. Grants tend to support individuals and teams associated with major research universities in the U.S.; however, grants are awarded researchers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
PROFILE: Established in 1994, the Brain Aneurysm Foundation (BAF) is located in Boston and has become the top organization dedicated to this cause in the U.S. The foundation works to “promote early detection of brain aneurysms by providing knowledge and raising awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors.” The foundation is led by Executive Director Christine Buckley and has a Medical Advisory Board that comprises more than 30 of the nation’s foremost aneurysm experts — neurologists, neurosurgeons, interventional neuroradiologists, and other brain aneurysm specialists — from the country’s leading hospitals and universities.
According to recent statistics, about one in 50 Americans will develop a brain aneurysm during their lifetimes, about 25,000 people suffer from ruptured brain aneurysms each year, and about half of those victims will die from the disorder. BAF funds research in the field and workswith medical communities to support patients.
Neuroscience Grants
BAF’s Research Grants fund “basic scientific research directed at early detection, improved treatment modalities, and technological advances that will ultimately improve outcomes for patients with brain aneurysms.”
BAF invites applications for basic scientific research directed at early detection, improved treatment modalities, and technological advances that will ultimately improve outcomes for patients with brain aneurysms, as well as projects that are translational, clinical/outcome, early detection, imaging, and SAH/SAH complications focused, as well as AI-focused projects.
BAF considers “any project with the potential to advance basic scientific, translational, and clinical brain aneurysm research.”
If an AI-focused project is selected, grant seekers will be eligible for an additional $5,000 grant from Rapid AI.
Grants are often supported by Chairs of Research, typically named after individuals who have suffered brain aneurysms and endowed by donations from their friends and family.
Important Grant Details:
In a recent year, the Brain Aneurysm Foundation made $490,000 in grants to 16 projects. Grants generally range from $10,000 to $50,000.
Past grant recipients can be viewed on the Research Grant Awards page.
Grants are regularly awarded to researchers affiliated with universities and hospitals in both the United States and Canada; however, researchers do not have to be citizens of the United States or Canada to apply and receive funding.
Grant recipients are presented at the Brain Aneurysm Foundation’s Annual Research Grant Awards Dinner, usually held in mid-September.
This funder accepts grant applications via an online portal until early May of each year. Application questions may be directed to the foundation’s executive director, Christine Buckley at christine@bafound.org or by telephone at (781) 826-5556.
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