CurePSP Student Fellowship Application Guidelines
Last updated: September 2025
Program Overview: CurePSP Student Fellowships support students and trainees conducting summer research projects focused on PSP or CBD. The goal of these programs is to encourage trainees to pursue research in this field in an effort to make PSP or CBD a long-term area of research interest and to further our understanding of these diseases.
Through the Student Fellowships program, CurePSP provides summer support to trainees, in the amount of $ 5,000 as detailed below. Proposals are carefully evaluated by CurePSP scientific staff and stakeholders in collaboration with our Executive Director and the Board of Directors.
The Urso Student Fellowship supports students conducting summer research projects focused on PSP, CBD, and related tauopathies. This program is supported by the Paul and Ruth Urso Memorial Research Fund. The goal of this fellowship program is to encourage students and trainees to pursue research in this field in the hope of making PSP or CBD a long-term area of research interest. Projects may be in basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological aspects of PSP and CBD.
Undergraduate, graduate, and medical students are eligible – as well as medical residents and clinical fellows. Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible for this program. The research must be performed under the supervision of a faculty mentor with expertise in the field. The maximum award is $ 5,000. Funds may be budgeted to cover the applicant’ s stipend and research related expenses.
The Jim Atwood Neuroscience Student Fellowship supports undergraduate students conducting summer research projects focused on PSP or CBD. The goal of this fellowship program is to encourage undergraduate students to pursue research in this field in an effort to make PSP or CBD a long-term area of research interest and to further our understanding of these diseases. In addition, their important work will aid in increasing the awareness of these rare neurodegenerative diseases with the end goal of a cure. Fellowship projects should have a neuroscience focus and may be in basic, translational, or clinical aspects of PSP or CBD.
Undergraduate students are eligible. The research must be performed under the supervision of a faculty mentor with expertise in the field. The maximum award for this application cycle is $ 5,000. Funds may be budgeted to cover the applicant’ s stipend and research related expenses.