The BRAIN Initiative has numerous active funding opportunities.

The active and closed funding opportunities are organized into seven categories: Brain Cell Types, Tools for Circuit Diagrams, Monitor Neural Activity, Precise Interventional Tools, Theory and Data Analysis Tools, Advance Human Neuroscience, and Integrated Approaches.

 

Web Information

Upcoming Funding Opportunities: http://braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/coming-xml.htm

Active Funding Opportunities: http://braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/index.htm

 

Funding Categories

Brain Cell Types 

Discovering diversity

Identify and provide experimental access to the different brain cell types to determine their roles in health and disease.

There are no new funding opportunities in this category.

Tools for Circuit Diagrams

Maps at multiple scales

Generate circuit diagrams that vary in resolution from synapses to the whole brain.

To be awarded: Short Courses in Research Tools and Methods

Monitor Neural Activity

The brain in action:

Produce a dynamic picture of the functioning brain by developing and applying improved methods for large-scale monitoring of neural activity.

To be awarded:

Pre-Applications for Industry Partnerships to Provide Early Access to Devices for Stimulation and Recording in the Human Central Nervous System

Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain

Technology Sharing and Propagation

Foundations of Non-Invasive Functional Human Brain Imaging and Recording – Bridging Scales and Modalities

 

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) members play a critical role in the fight to increase research funding and promote science issues.

The SfN website has an excellent compilation of US and Global funding sources as well as an Advocacy Network for its members.

Web Information

U.S. Funding Priorities and Process page: http://www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Neuroscience-Funding/

Global Funding Sources page: http://www.sfn.org/awards-and-funding/global-funding-sources/europe

Advocacy Network page: http://www.sfn.org/advocacy/advocacy-network

 

 

The National Science Foundation has numerous neuroscience-related funding opportunities that relate to Brain Projects.

Some of the major programs include: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS), Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems  (NSF-NCS), Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) and the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) neuroscience, and Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC).

 

Web Information

CRCNS funding web page:  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pg

NCS funding web page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pg

IOS & MCB funding web page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm

I/UCRC Dear Colleague Letter page: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014

 

 

The NIH BRAIN Initiative has released three funding opportunity announcements for partnerships between clinical investigators and manufacturers of the latest-generation implantable stimulating and/or recording devices for clinical neuroscience research in humans.

A central focus of the BRAIN Initiative is development of technologies for recording and modulating neural circuits. Such technologies may be incorporated into devices to be implanted in the brain or spinal cord that can, for example, treat Parkinson’s disease or restore movement in the case of spinal cord injury.

Web Information

NIH web page: brainupdate.nih.gov/nih-brain-initiative-releases-funding-announcements-to-facilitate-private-public-partnership

BRAIN 2015 post on 2015 workshop: brain2015.onair.cc/early-access-to-neuromodulation-and-recording

BRAIN Update

September 21, 2015 BRAIN Initiative press release

The NIH BRAIN Initiative has released three funding opportunity announcements for partnerships between clinical investigators and manufacturers of the latest-generation implantable stimulating and/or recording devices for clinical neuroscience research in humans.

A central focus of the BRAIN Initiative is development of technologies for recording and modulating neural circuits. Such technologies may be incorporated into devices to be implanted in the brain or spinal cord that can, for example, treat Parkinson’s disease or restore movement in the case of spinal cord injury.

NIH has released three funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) for Fiscal Year 2016 to fund research partnerships between clinical ...

 

The goal of the Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study program is to ensure the development of a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership roles in science, including college and university faculty, who have the responsibility to teach the next generation of scientists.

Students are chosen for their academic excellence, scientific potential, and commitment to the advancement of diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

 

Web Information

Webpage: https://www.hhmi.org/programs/gilliam-fellowships-for-advanced-study

Contact Information

Email: gilliam@hhmi.org.

About

The fellowships honor the legacy of the late James H. Gilliam, Jr., an HHMI trustee who devoted his life to fostering excellence and diversity in education and science.

The 2015 competition is open to:

Alumni of HHMI’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), regardless of country of origin or nationally, or Students nominated by T32 predoctoral training grant principal investigators (PIs) supported by the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); each nominated student must be training grant eligible but does not need to have been a T32 trainee.

Each fellowship will support students for up to three years of their dissertation research, typically in years three, four and five of their PhD studies.  Applicants must be in their second or third year of a PhD program in the life sciences or related sciences and ...