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@impetusgrants

"Huge if true" aging science.
Over $34M of research funded.
Next round, questions, donations and other details - impetusgrants.org
Run by @NornGroup
San Francisco impetusgrants.org Joined February 2022
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Scientists with bold ideas shouldn’t have to play it safe to get funded.

So we started giving “big if true” grants via @NornGroup to support intellectual risk-taking & help scientists explore ideas they wouldn’t otherwise get to try.

How has that been going? Extremely well! 👇
Itai Yanai Verified account @ItaiYanai Sep 7
🔥Does academia stifle creativity? This new perspective argues that academia is currently structured to select against creativity, intellectual risk-taking and bold ideas. Young scientists – who may be best positioned for new ideas – are particularly incentivized to play it safe.
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new Impetus Grants round announcement by @NornGroup, read more here, and contribute:
Norn Group Verified account @NornGroup Apr 20
The next breakthroughs in biological AI will be shaped by the datasets we build now.

We’re planning an Impetus Grants @impetusgrants round to fund shared, AI-enabling biological datasets.

Learn more and contribute: norn.group/impetus-grants…
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How does protein misfolding relate to cognitive decline? According to a recent Impetus preprint: significantly! Stephen Fried lab reports that rat neuroproteins unable to refold spontaneously also show structural changes in animals with impaired learning and memory.
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