Cognitive Health
Prevention, Research, and Future against Alzheimer's

Global Call

A global call to identify and fund a preclinical research project focused on a pharmacological cure for Alzheimer's.
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GLOBAL CALL

Research that needs to go further

The Global Call was created to open a channel of connection between the Rosa Maria Vivar Foundation and research teams working on the development of pharmacological strategies with curative potential for Alzheimer's.
The objective is to fund a preclinical research project, with a clearly defined disease mechanism and a plausible path towards pharmacological intervention, through a two-phase evaluation process: Letter of Intent (LOI) and full proposal by invitation.

The Call

Areas of Interest

The call is aimed at preclinical projects that propose a pharmacological intervention pathway with the potential to modify the course of the disease or contribute to a cure.

Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets

Identification and validation of targets with a defined therapeutic pathway.

Early Therapeutic Development

Small molecules, biological therapies, or other modalities supported by a solid preclinical basis.

Drug Repositioning

Repositioning proposals supported by robust evidence and clear mechanistic justification.

Who can submit a project

The call is open to entities with their own legal personality, domicile or permanent establishment in Spain, that carry out R activities in national territory: universities, hospitals, public or private research centers and institutes, and biotechnology startups or companies with demonstrated R capacity.
International cooperation through consortia is permitted, provided that a Spanish entity acts as the coordinating institution and recipient of the aid.
Each proposal must identify a principal investigator and a host institution responsible for the administrative and financial management of the project.

Project Submission Form

To rigorously evaluate each proposal, the form must collect scientific, technical, economic, and organizational information about the project.

1st Global Call for Alzheimer’s Cure-Focused Research


The Rosa María Vivar Foundation launches this global call to fund one research project with a total budget of €160,000 and a maximum duration of 24 months, aimed at advancing a cure-focused pharmacological approach to Alzheimer’s disease. The call is open to RDI activities primarily based in Spain, including the possibility of international cooperation, is incompatible with other funding allocated to the same project, requires that all application materials be submitted in English, and limits indirect costs to a maximum of 15% of the total requested budget.

This call is structured as a two-stage process consisting of a Letter of Intent (LOI) followed by a Full Proposal by invitation only.

LOI submission period: June 15th – September 30th, 2026.


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    Annex A

    LOI Template and Eligibility


    Please complete this form in English.
    The recommended length of the LOI is 2 pages
    excluding references.

    PART I – Host Institution Details

    PART II – Institutional Contact Person for Coordination with the Rosa María Vivar Foundation

    01 LOI Template


    Accepted format: PDF. Maximum size: 10 MB.
    File naming: "PI_CV_LastName.pdf".
    You can attach your complete CV here.

    02 Indicative Budget Summary

    03 Ethics, Regulatory, and Privacy Flags


    Please indicate whether any of the following apply to the proposed project.

    Human participants / data / samples *

    Animals *

    EU clinical trial *

    Personal data processing *

    04 Declarations


    All declarations are mandatory to participate in this call.

    05 Eligibility Supporting Documentation


    Please upload the necessary supporting documentation to justify eligibility.
    You may include up to 10 documents inside one compressed file or one combined PDF.

    Eligibility documents included *


    Important: Each file must be labelled with the section name and document title.
    Example: "03_Approvals_EthicsCommittee.pdf" or
    "05_Eligibility_IncorporationCertificate.pdf".

    Accepted formats: PDF, ZIP, RAR, DOC or DOCX.
    Maximum size: 10 MB.

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    First Global Call for Alzheimer's Cure-Focused Research

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