The purpose of the NINDS Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to support a cohort of new and talented, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral sciences, conducting ADRD research. The program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of eligible postdoctoral researchers from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The program will provide independent NIH research support during this transition in order to help recipients establish independent research programs in the ADRD field.