Grant Guidelines 

The 2024 grant application process will be open from 1st - 26th April.

See Guide and Application form for details.

Contact alisdair@ferblanc.org with queries.

Ferblanc hopes to see communication and data shared between global neurological research facilities so that development can be truly worldwide, accelerating advancement and finding cures to these disorders.  We intend to launch an online platform so that the publications of research projects can be made available to everyone in the sector.

Ferblanc has to date sought out projects and visited institutions, laboratories and researchers before making grants and has continued to monitor their impact.

As our organisation grows, individuals and research organisations seeking funding can apply using our online application form. The Board of Trustees, supported where required by the Ferblanc Medical Council, will make the decision to award grants.  The Trustees will consider the applications based on relevance to Ferblanc’s objectives and the availability of funds. Applicants should demonstrate that they already publish the results of their research or are willing to do so.

The deadline for submission is 5pm on Friday 26th April.

The Ferblanc Trustees will make the awards in June.

Key Points

• Ferblanc reserves the right not to process your application if you are ineligible to be an applicant or the subject of your proposal does not fall within our remit. Ferblanc’s willingness to consider the application in no way implies that support will be forthcoming.

• Ferblanc receives a high number of applications and sadly due to budgetary constraints it cannot fund every project regardless of the outcome of peer reviews.

• Ferblanc reserves the right to make the final decision on which projects it chooses to support.

• If there are any ties on intellectual property rights or publications arising from the research you undertake, please contact Ferblanc for advice. Restrictions on intellectual property may affect your eligibility to apply to Ferblanc.

The Ferblanc Medical Council

The Board of Trustees (supported where required by the Ferblanc Medical Council) will make the decision to award grants. 

All volunteered services, the Ferblanc Medical Council is formed of: 

• Dr Alisdair Macnair (GP, Ferblanc Medical Council Chair and Ferblanc trustee)

• Dr Thomas Cope (Clinical Lecturer, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Specialist Registrar (ST7) in Neurology, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Psychology and PNB, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

• Mr Richard Mair (Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge)

• Dr George Crowther (Consultant in Old Age Liaison Psychiatry at Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust and a lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Leeds)

• Dr Chris Allen (Consultant Neurologist, Director of the Addenbrooke’s Motor Neurone Disease Care & Research Centre)

• Dr Ben Underwood (Assistant Professor in applied and translational old age psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in Cambridge. Research and Development Director at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and clinical director of the Windsor research unit at Fulbourn Hospital).