Grants Team

Grants - Dr. Marion Baillet

January 2024: PI on an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship ($199 951) by the Alzheimer's Association (project title: "Hypothalamic nuclei and the spatiotemporal evolution of Alzheimer's disease", period: 2024-2026; mentor: Heidi Jacobs)

January 2024: PI on a Marie-Curie Sklodowska Global Fellowship (272 536 euros) by the EU-Horizon (project title: "Focusing on deep sleep-wake brain regions in the context of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis: a multi-modal high-resolution neuroimaging approach", period: 2024-2026; mentors: Heidi Jacobs & Keith Johnson)
July 2021: PI on a BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer's disease Research Program ($200,000) by the BrightFocus Foundation, USA (project title: “The brainstem locus coeruleus: potential bridge between sleep-wake disruption and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis”; period 2021-2023, mentor: Heidi Jacobs)
January 2020: PI on a WBI. World Excellence grant (50 000 euros) of the Wallonia-Brussels International, Belgium (project title: “Ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging of brain structures underlying wakefulness and sleep across the lifespanI”; period 2020-2022; mentor: Heidi Jacobs)

October 2015: PI (together with Dr. Vandewalle and Collette) on an Aspirant F.R.S.-FNRS grant (120 000 euros) of the F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium (project title: "How temporal organisation of neuronal function promotes successful cognitive aging", period 2015=2019)

October 2018: PI on a Dekker-Padget Dutch2USA Internship grant (US$ 7400) by the Netherland-America Foundation (NAF) (period 2018-2019)

July 2023: PI on an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship ($199 600) by the Alzheimer's Association (project title: "Phenotyping of Alzheimer's disease based on selective vulnerability of locus coeruleus", period: 2023-2026; mentor: Heidi Jacobs)

May 2026: Young Research and Innovator Conference Grant (2,500 euros) by the EU COST Brainstem (Title: "Locus coeruleus activity and sleep-wake metrics in the context of plasma Alzheimer's disease markers in older individuals, period: 2026, mentors: Heidi Jacobs & Maxime Van Egroo)
March 2026: PI on an InterAct award (15,000 euros) by Alzheimer Nederland (project title: "Tau progression subtyping and locus coeruleus integrity in Alzheimer's disease: identifying heterogeneity at the earliest stages of the disease", period: 2026, mentor: Heidi Jacobs & Julie Price)

July 2023: PI on a NIH Trailblazer R21 award ($667,050) by the NIH-NIA, Bethesda, USA (title: "Contribution of locus coeruleus activity patterns on tau deposition in Alzheimer's disease", period: 2023-2027)

September 2023: PI on a NIH R21 award ($426,353) by the NIH-NIA, Bethesda, USA (title: "Inference by interference: task-dependent pupil responses as an early detection method for Alzheimer's disease related brainstem functional change", period: 2023-2026)
July 2024: PI on a BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer's disease Research Program ($200,000) by the BrightFocus Foundation, USA (project title: Meynert to mayhem? The temporal-spatial evolution of early tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease", period 2024 - 2026; mentors: Keith Johnson & Heidi Jacobs)
October 2020: PI on a ZonMw Translational research PT02 Networking grant (8,804 euros) by the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (project title: "Focus on the locus coeruleus as synergistic nexus of pathology in Alzheimer's disease"; period 2020-2021; mentor: Heidi Jacobs)
November 2015: co-PI on a pilot grant (98 748 system billing units super computer computation time) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Exact Sciences division, Den Hague, The Netherlands (project title: “Multi-Modal MultiFactor Alzheimer’s Disease Etiology (M3FADE)”; period 2015-2016; mentor: Heidi Jacobs)

September 2024: PI on a NIH T32 award ($45,602) by the NIH-NIA, Bethesda, USA (title: "Using neuroimaging to better understand microstructural changes in healthy and pathological brain aging", period: 2024-2024, mentors: Heidi Jacobs & Reisa Sperling)

Dr. Whitney Freeze: Alzheimer Nederland Pilot award (50,000 euros) by Alzheimer Nederland (Title: Focus on the locus coeruleus as biomarker: ex vivo correlates of 9.4T MRI contrast", period: 2019-2022)