Apex Neuroscience
Support Our Mission By Making a Donation
Thank you for considering making a financial contribution. All donations are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent allowed by law. Here are two ways you can donate:
Donor Privacy
Your privacy is our priority. We collect minimal personal information, which is kept confidential and used solely for internal purposes. We do not share or sell your information with any outside parties.
How Your Donation Would Advance Our Research
Our work centers around research projects that further our mission as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Apex Neuroscience will make the ultimate decision on how to use any contributions for purposes consistent with our mission. We only spend donated funds in a way that we believe will benefit the public. We have two major research areas where we could deploy funds:
Advancing Preservation Quality Assessment
Your support could help us to access cutting-edge technology for evaluating brain structural preservation. This includes high-resolution imaging volume electron microscopy such as FIB-SEM as well as biomolecular imaging techniques such as in situ hybridization.
Translational Human Brain Preservation Research
Your support could enable us to coordinate more anatomical donations, allowing us to validate our preservation techniques on a larger sample of human brains. We believe it is vital to test preservation methods in donated human brains, as it is a truism across biomedical research that techniques which work in animal models do not always translate reliably to humans.
Research Roadmap
For a roadmap covering several aspects of brain preservation research that we think will be particularly valuable in the coming years, you may be interested in this review publication by one of our directors. Please contact us if you are interested in more details about our research goals and potential milestones, which depend on funding availability.
Our Current Funding Status
We are a non-profit in a historically underfunded field. We are currently funding limited in many areas where we believe we could productively deploy funds. We currently do not have the funding to support any full-time researchers.
Impact Statement
Your donations to Apex Neuroscience directly support our very early stage investigations in the developing field of brain banking and brain preservation. We conduct rigorous scientific research to develop and refine preservation techniques that aim to maintain the brain's delicate structure with high fidelity in a reproducible manner. As one of the few organizations conducting experimental research in this emerging field, we believe our work has the potential to contribute to a paradigm shift in neuroscience and expand the boundaries of what is possible for humanity. For donations of any size, please feel free to contact us for more information.
Featured Supporter
We would like to express our gratitude to the Brain Preservation Foundation for making a $10,000 grant in 2024 to support our research in fluid preservation. We are deeply grateful for your support. Every contribution plays a vital role in advancing our mission.