Slots: 1
Deadlines
Internal Deadline: Monday, June 16th, 2025, 5pm PT A nominee has been chosen.
LOI: N/A
External Deadline: July 10, 2025
Award Information
Award Type: Grant
Anticipated Award Amount: Research projects should be scoped for a 3-year period with a total requested budget up to $500K (USD). Cash award is provided to the institution in the name of the awardee, in equal annual installments over the funding period. Awards have no deliverables and must be free of overhead or other fees.
Eligibility Information: Institution must be a degree-granting academic or a non-profit research institution.
Applicant must hold a tenure-tracked faculty position and be authorized to serve as a principal investigator for research contracts and principal advisor of doctoral candidates at the institution.
Link to Award: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/arc/arc-2025-neurodegenerative-diseases.shtml
Process for Limited Submissions
PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template
Materials to submit include:
- (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
- (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)
Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.
Purpose
The ARC program was created to fuel pioneering research in strategic areas of importance to Agilent, empowering scientific innovation and celebrating impactful contributions from academic institutions. This research program is extremely selective, and I would like to request that your institution will help select the most competitive principal investigators to apply for this Call. The application process is light, and we are seeking project proposals scoped for a 3-year period with a total budget up to $500K (USD). Further award details, as well as the application form and process can be found on the ARC2025-NDD website.
Award Focus Topic:
Studying the Connectivity Between Epigenetic Factors and Metabolism to Support Biomarker or Therapeutic Development in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Additional Information:
- Proposals incorporating the development and evaluation of DNA and methylation marker candidates—without sample splitting or signal loss in cfDNA—and associating these markers with metabolic factors influencing the progression of neurodegenerative disease are encouraged.
- Proposals that leverage multimodal data including cell analysis tools and mass spectrometry synergistically with DNA and methylation and marker candidates are encouraged
- Applications with coinvestigators at the same institution are permitted to encourage multimodal approaches.
Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.