Leducq Foundation: International Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Research

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Carole King at carole.king@med.usc.edu.

• LOI due September 3, 2025
• Amount up to 9,000,000 (10% indirects)
• Project period is five years

Funding for internationally collaborative basic, translational, and clinical research in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease.

Historically, most of the programs supported are basic and/or translational science.

The research should aim to generate new knowledge with the potential to advance the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular and/or neurovascular disease.

Early career investigators should be part of the network.

Each network is built around an international research alliance involving two network coordinators, who must be located on different continents.

Interdisciplinary collaboration is encouraged.

The network should have three to six institutional members.

Leducq Foundation funding should not be the sole source of support for the research program.

The commitment to early-career investigators demonstrated in the budget will figure importantly in the evaluation process, and applications with budgets weighted disproportionately to paying salaries of senior investigators will be viewed unfavorably.