Grants Archive - John Merck Fund

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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.

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Date	Description	Program Area	Focus	Amount
04/2011	Brandeis University To 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 Laboratory To 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 University To 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 School To 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 University To 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 University To 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 Diego To 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 Laboratory To 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 Center To 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 University To 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