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The John Merck Fund has a long history of funding efforts to benefit human health and environmental sustainability in New England and beyond. You can navigate our previous grantmaking efforts below by typing in a keyword, or filtering by program, topic or year.
Date | Description | Program Area | Focus | Amount |
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04/2011 |
Brandeis UniversityTo support research in synaptic plasticity underlying experience-dependent development by John Merck Scholar finalist Stephan Van Hooser. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$10,000 |
04/2011 |
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryTo support research on neural circuits for multisensory decisionmaking by John Merck Scholar Anne Churchland. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$300,000 |
04/2011 |
Columbia UniversityTo support research on the effects of the chemical and social environments on reading impairment by John Merck Scholar finalist Kimberly Noble. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$10,000 |
04/2011 |
Harvard Medical SchoolTo support research on the role of glia and the complement cascade in the refinement of developing neural circuits by John Merck Scholar Beth Stevens. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$300,000 |
04/2011 |
Stanford UniversityTo support research on social attention and word learning in typical development and autism spectrum disorders by Michael Frank. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$300,000 |
04/2011 |
Stanford UniversityTo support research on elucidating protein synthesis defects in Fragile X Syndrome using new molecular tools by John Merck Scholar finalist Michael Z. Lin. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$10,000 |
04/2011 |
University of California, San DiegoTo support research on genetic dissection of CNS wiring specificity in development and disease by John Merck Scholar finalist Andrew Huberman. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$10,000 |
05/2010 |
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryTo support research into functional dissection of the central cholinergic system in cognition by John Merck Scholar Adam Kepecs. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$300,000 |
05/2010 |
Duke University Medical CenterTo support research on regulation of excitatory synaptogenesis by GABA in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Cagla Eroglu. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$10,000 |
05/2010 |
Emory UniversityTo support research on the development of magnitude reasoning, including normative and atypical trajectories, by John Merck Scholar Stella Lourenco. |
Developmental Disabilities |
John Merck Scholars I Program |
$300,000 |